Primary user input was decimal, via standard IBM 80 column punched cards and output was decimal, via a front panel display.

It was also a less expensive alternative to the Apple Macintosh and IBM PC as a general-purpose business or home computer.

* Attached Support Processor, one of the two early IBM System / 360 programs that replaces the native SPOOL facilities of OS / 360 ; the other was Houston Automatic Spooling Priority ( HASP ).

AIX was the first operating system to utilize journaling file systems, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features like processor, disk and network virtualization, dynamic hardware resource allocation ( including fractional processor units ), and reliability engineering ported from its mainframe designs.

AIX Version 1, introduced in 1986 for the IBM 6150 RT workstation, was based on UNIX System V Releases 1 and 2.

A beta test version of AIX 5L for IA-64 systems was released, but according to documents released in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, less than forty licenses for the finished Monterey Unix were ever sold before the project was terminated in 2002.

IBM maintains that their license was irrevocable, and continued to sell and support the product until the litigation was adjudicated.

AIX was a component of the 2003 SCO v. IBM lawsuit, in which the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging IBM contributed SCO's intellectual property to the Linux codebase.

The original AIX ( sometimes called AIX / RT ) was developed for the IBM 6150 RT workstation by IBM in conjunction with Interactive Systems Corporation, who had previously ported UNIX System III to the IBM PC for IBM as PC / IX.

This was based on a design pioneered at IBM Research ( the IBM 801 ).

AIX PS / 2 ( also known as AIX / 386 ) was developed by Locus Computing Corporation under contract to IBM.

AIX / 370 was released in 1990 with functional equivalence to System V Release 2 and 4. 3BSD as well as IBM enhancements.

This development effort was made partly to allow IBM to compete with Amdahl UTS.

As an example, if one was trying to profit from a price discrepancy between IBM on the NYSE and IBM on the London Stock Exchange, they may purchase a large number of shares on the NYSE and find that they cannot simultaneously sell on the LSE.

The encoding of data by discrete bits was used in the punched cards invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon ( 1732 ), developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard ( 1804 ), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, Charles Babbage, Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM.

PC-DOS version 1. 00 supported only 160 kB SSDD floppies, but version 1. 1, which was released nine months after the PC's introduction, supported 160 kB SSDD and 320 kB DSDD floppies.

MetaComCo's first product was an MBASIC compatible interpreter for IBM PC's, which was licensed by Peter Mackeonis to Digital Research in 1982, and issued as the Digital Research Personal Basic, or PBASIC, running under CP / M.

This model's larger CRT was hinged, pivoting upward for easier viewing while boasting twice the resolution of standard PC's.

The PC's bankruptcy was the final blow to long-haul private-sector passenger train service in the United States.

Reasons for that might have been the lack of standardized and fully functional audio card standards by 1997 ( AC ' 97 was not standardized yet, and most sound cards were partially functioning " Soundblaster clones " which lacked even full duplex capabilities ) and the lack of CPU power on entry-level PC's.

At the PCjr's announcement, reporters " gaspin dismay " when they saw its chiclet keyboard, which had 62 keys versus the IBM PC's 83 and was " not suitable for serious long-term typing ".

Price, upon the formation of the People's Committee ( PC ) in 1950, was named its Assistant Secretary, and in a famous speech later that year claimed that " National Unity " propelled the PC's actions.

Although the protocol used in France for Minitel was slightly different than the international standard you could use the ' international ' terminal ( or PC's with the corerect terminal-emulation software ) to access the French services.

The Conservative party was elected with a majority government ( 166 seats ) on 2 May 2011, the first time any party had won a majority since the Liberals in 2000 and the first time that a conservative party had a majority since the PC's in 1988.

StepMania was originally developed as an open source port of Konami's arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution ( DDR ), and was able to import DDR PC's file format.

The game was ported to numerous consoles and computer systems such as the Amiga, DOS based PC's, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Sharp X68000, FM Towns, Commodore 64, Sega Master System, PC Engine, Sega Saturn, PC, MSX, ZX Spectrum, and Game Boy Advance in an arcade 4 pack named Sega Arcade Gallery.

The infra-red connection was not compatible with a PC's IrDA port unless a third party utility was installed ( PlBeam ).

Because most of the components, except the PC's BIOS, were publicly available, all Compaq had to do was reverse-engineer the BIOS.

( The original " 5. 25-inch slot " in the IBM PC was with 3. 25 in ( 82. 6 mm ) twice as high as the one commonly used today ; in fact, the PC's drive size was called " 5. 25 inch full-height ", and the size used in the PC AT and commonly used today is " 5. 25 inch half-height ".

On October 4, 2011, Goertzen was re-elected in the Steinbach constitunecy by another larger majority, although the PC's once again lost the election to the NDP.

As well as the 1. 6 and 2. 0 I4s, the FD series was also available in New Zealand ( sedans only ; wagons were rare imports ) with the larger Cresta PC's 3294 cc engine, badged as the Victor 3300, later 3300SL.

In the days following PC's formal denouncement of ranking systems, however, Presbyterian College was ranked no.

The client / server model used for Holos was initially for a very " light " client as it was not clear at that time ( 1986 / 7 ) that PC's were going to be so commonplace and most PC's were still running MS-DOS.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.