Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

Wires whined as a cold November blast rocked the silver wings, but the engine roar was reassuring to the pilot bundled in the open cockpit.

The heads were bundled together in a gruesome package and sent to the Abbasid caliph who was on pilgrimage at Mecca.

The most notable exception was the XG-1 lightgun, which came bundled with the Atari XE Game System.

Until that time, software was bundled with the hardware by Original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ) such as Data General, Digital Equipment and IBM.

In Ancient Egyptian architecture as early as 2600 BC the architect Imhotep made use of stone columns whose surface was carved to reflect the organic form of bundled reeds ; in later Egyptian architecture faceted cylinders were also common.

When Counter-Strike was published by Sierra Entertainment / Vivendi Universal Games, it was bundled with Team Fortress Classic, Opposing Force multiplayer, and the Wanted, Half-Life: Absolute Redemption and Firearms mods.

By the early 1970s, the picture changed: software costs were dramatically increasing, a growing software industry was competing with the hardware manufacturer's bundled software products ( free in that the cost was included in the hardware cost ), leased machines required software support while providing no revenue for software, and some customers able to better meet their own needs did not want the costs of " free " software bundled with hardware product costs.

In United States vs. IBM, filed January 17, 1969, the government charged that bundled software was anticompetitive.

This was bundled with " multimedia upgrade kits ", comprising a CD-ROM drive and a sound card, such as the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro.

The Kazaa Media Desktop client could be downloaded free of charge ; however, it was bundled with adware and for a period there were " No spyware " warnings found on Kazaa's website.

The more accessible traditional video format broadened Quad Gods viewership, and the work was distributed on CDs bundled with magazines.

On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc. ( now Apple Inc .) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, with the Macintosh 128K model, which came bundled with what was later renamed the Mac OS, but then known simply as the System Software.

One of the first " clone " versions of MultiMate was bundled with an early portable PC made by Corona.

It was proficient at making graphs and charts and was often bundled with some Macs.

" Later, the " Gold System " was bundled with Magician Lord and Fatal Fury.

The Neo Geo CD was bundled with a control pad instead of a joystick like the AES version.

Much of its success was because Windows 3. 0 ( along with MS-DOS ) was bundled with most new computers.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

Gavin's face was bloodless with excitement.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.

Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.

The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.

Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.

He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

He was handsome, with his coal-black hair and eyes, his fine-chiseled features.

This capability was most frequently used to read MS-DOS disks.

Usually, it was called Apple DOS to distinguish it from MS-DOS.

Initial version, released in 1984, was nothing but MS-DOS 1. 0 ported to Z80 ; but in 1988 it evolved to version 2, offering facilities such as subdirectories, memory management and environment strings.

The original was 86-DOS, which would later become Microsoft MS-DOS.

Initially developed ( though not publicly released ) on the Atari ST, the first commercial release was for the 16-bit Microsoft MS-DOS platform and was proprietary.

Craig ported his original Atari implementation to the 16-bit Microsoft MS-DOS platform and Euphoria was first released ( version 1. 0 ) in July, 1993 under a proprietary licence.

It was the only text editor provided with MS-DOS before version 5. 0 of that system, when it was superseded by the full screen MS-DOS Editor.

It was originally written for Seattle Computer Products's 86-DOS ( QDOS ), which Microsoft acquired and sold as MS-DOS.

This is related to limitations of the MS-DOS operating system prior to version 7. 0 and not Edlin per se ; long file names were added to MS-DOS and MS-Windows long after Edlin was written.

In 1981 the first IBM PC was introduced, with MS-DOS operating system.

Since it was included with most versions of MS-DOS, it was also a low cost way for many would-be programmers to learn the fundamentals of computer programming.

With the release of MS-DOS 5. 0, GW-BASIC's place was eventually taken by QBasic, the interpreter part of the separately available QuickBASIC compiler.

Windows 1. 0 was not a complete operating system, but rather an " operating environment " that extended MS-DOS, and shared the latter's inherent flaws and problems.

" Windows Me was the last operating system to be based on the Windows 9x ( monolithic ) kernel and MS-DOS.

" Heromaker ", an MS-DOS program, was distributed with some versions of Champions.

Even though Microsoft released a cheap version of Adventure with its initial version of MS-DOS 1. 0 for IBM PCs, Zork I was still a popular seller for the PC, thanks to the superior quality of its writing and packaging.

The problems led to Bill Gates famously referring to the 80286 as a " brain dead chip ", since it was clear that the new Microsoft Windows environment would not be able to run multiple MS-DOS applications with the 286.

The MS-DOS version of Kermit was developed in 1983.