A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.

Haley was soon eclipsed in the United States by the younger, sexier Elvis, but continued to enjoy great popularity in Latin America, Europe, and Australia through the 1960s.

The Nationalists initially had superiority in arms and men, but their lack of popularity, infiltration by Communist agents, low morale, and disorganization soon allowed the Communists to gain the upper hand in the civil war.

Despite considerable popularity amongst the people, Madero ´ s administration soon encountered opposition both from more radical revolutionaries and from remnants of the former regime.

When he returned to the Netherlands in October 1979, his band had begun to fall apart, and soon his popularity went downhill.

Newton then became one of only two evangelical preachers in the capital, and he soon found himself gaining in popularity amongst the growing evangelical party.

The Captain and the Kids soon proved to equal the popularity of The Katzenjammer Kids.

Captain's chairs ( the format typically used on U. S. conversion vans ) soon began to gain popularity, beginning with top trim models and working its way down.

Following the surge in popularity, new poker tours soon emerged, notably the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour, both televised and the latter sponsored by online poker company PokerStars.

The popularity of the National Matches soon forced the event to be moved to its present, much larger location: Camp Perry.

The popularity of this machine led to the increasing predominance of electronic games, and the side lever soon became vestigial.

Its popularity soon spawns the parody " Who Put the Bomp.

She soon established herself as an autocratic ruler, using her popularity with the imperial guards and lesser nobility.

Growing in popularity, they soon began appearing in broadcasts, movies, and concerts in West Germany.

The show's popularity waned after this move, and it was soon cancelled.

Cariocas, or Rio de Janeiro natives, are commonly stereotyped as more politically leftist and socially liberal than paulistas, or São Paulo natives, and according to most recent IBGE data the 2nd least Catholic ( 49, 83 %) and most irreligious ( 15, 95 %) people in the country are those from Rio de Janeiro state, soon after those from Roraima ( 46, 78 % and 19, 39 %), respectively — also the popularity of Spiritism ( 3, 37 %) and Afro-Brazilian religions ( 1, 61 %) is the nation's biggest there, and excluding the capital, the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area is the least Catholic and the most Irreligious.

Despite the popularity of her subsequent early talking films, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney and Their Own Desire ( both 1929 ), Shearer feared the public would soon tire of her " good girl " image, and took the advice of friend and co-star Ramón Novarro to visit an unknown photographer named George Hurrell.

The popularity of the TV show coincided with the introduction of such schemes and soon became associated with any complex traffic roundabout.

Though the group never gained much fame in the English-speaking market, popularity throughout the rest of the world soon followed, reaching the Top # 5 in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany.

Xenix varied from its 7th Edition origins by incorporating elements from BSD, and soon ( for a time ) possessed the most widely installed base of any Unix version due to the popularity of the inexpensive x86 processor.

The National Committee For Amish Religious Freedom called for a boycott of the movie soon after its release, citing fears that these communities were being " overrun by tourists " as a result of the popularity of the movie, and worried that " the crowding, souvenir-hunting, photographing and trespassing on Amish farmsteads will increase ".

Arcades experienced a short resurgence of popularity in the mid-1990s, but soon began to decline again.

Some early development took place to accommodate the popularity of the nearby Sadler's Wells, which became a resort in the 16th century, but the 19th century saw the greatest expansion in housing, soon to cover the whole parish.

It soon gained in popularity as other amusements were added, including Woburn Safari Park on the grounds of the Abbey in 1970.

Russian abacus began to lose popularity only after the mass production of microcalculators had started in the Soviet Union in 1974.

The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

Wine coolers gained popularity in the U. S. market in the 1980s when Bartles and Jaymes began advertising their brand of wine coolers, which were followed by other brands, including when Bacardi introduced the Breezer.

As hip hop's popularity grew, performers began speaking (" rapping ") in sync with the beats, and became known as MCs or emcees.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

As the movement began to gain popularity, the Partisans gained strength from Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Slovenes, and Macedonians who believed in a unified, but federal, Yugoslav state.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

As the price of players gradually came down, the CD began to gain popularity in the larger popular and rock music markets.

Meanwhile, with the advent and popularity of the MP3, sales of CDs began dropping in the 2000s.

The sport originally began with " all girl " teams and later co-ed teams began to gain popularity.

By the beginning of the 19th century, government policy on both sides of the Atlantic began to change, reflecting the growing popularity of the proposition that corporations were riding the economic wave of the future.

Because of the popularity of Edison's and Lumière's cameras, 35mm film began to become the dominant gauge.

Outside the scope of media, railway enthusiasts are another early fandom with its roots in the late 19th century that began to gain in popularity and increasingly organize in the first decades of the early 20th century.

During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty One and The $ 64, 000 Question began a rapid rise in popularity.

Mirroring the long downward trend in the popularity of variety shows in general that had taken place in the 1970s, ratings began to decline for Hee Haw by the mid-1980s, a trend that continued into the early 1990s.

The martial arts movies of the 1960s and 1970s served to greatly increase its popularity and the word " karate " began to be used in a generic way to refer to all striking-based Oriental martial arts.

In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

With the introduction of their line of Gundam models, the popularity of the show began to soar.

The initial popularity of the ' classic ' non-selective irreversible MAO inhibitors began to wane due to their serious interactions with sympathomimetic drugs and tyramine-containing foods that could lead to dangerous hypertensive emergencies.

At one time, nutcrackers were actually made of metals such as brass, and it wasn't until the 1800s in Germany that the popularity of wooden ones began to spread.

Its popularity in the US began when soldiers returning from World War II brought back with them a taste for the “ pizza herb ”, which had probably been eaten in southern Italy for centuries.

Bands that fused punk with light-hearted pop melodies, such as The Queers and Screeching Weasel, began appearing around the country, in turn influencing bands like Green Day and The Offspring, who brought pop punk wide popularity and major record sales.

Other California punk bands on the independent label Epitaph, run by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, also began achieving mainstream popularity.