Low-cost carriers, such as EasyJet and Ryanair, now charge for food and drinks on flights under two hours long.

The north pier features a more minimalistic design with walk-boarding-gates instead of jet bridges to cater to high demand from no-frills Low-cost airlines.

; Low-cost computer hardware: Leveraging the technology of personal computers, adding a microprocessor enabled complex control functions to be expressed in software rather than wiring.

Low-cost units may be disposable with no provision to replace batteries or bulbs, and are sometimes imprinted with advertising for promotional purposes.

Low-cost accelerometers replace the mercury tilt switch in precision applications.

Low-cost time base correctors ( TBC ) specifically designed to work with the Toaster quickly came to market, most of which were designed as standard Amiga bus cards.

Low-cost production quality was typical for early black metal artists with low budgets, where recordings would often be done in their homes or basements.

Low-cost systems use a radar altimeter, barometric altimeter and clock to navigate a digital strip map.

Low-cost " home theater in a box " systems advertise their integration and simplicity.

Low-cost commercial vans and 4WDs in Australia continued with carburetors even into the 2000s, the last being the Mitsubishi Express van in 2003.

Low-cost high-volume-produced patio door safety glass is an inexpensive way to accomplish this goal.

Low-cost Mexican airline Volaris started service between OAK and the airline's two main locations: Guadalajara, and Toluca on July 16, 2009.

Low-cost off-peak electric power is used to run the pumps.

Low-cost carrier Presidential Airways also began service from the Jetport in 1986, flying a route from Portland to Washington's Dulles International Airport.

Low-cost wide-angle lens add-ons are available for many cameras and some can even be fitted outside the camera housing for versatile use.

; Low-cost, high-capacity memory: By 1995, a music workstation might have 16 to 64 megabytes of memory in a few chips, which had required a rack of cards in 1985.

** Low-cost infrastructure elements that can increase the speed and reliability of bus service in lanes shared with general traffic include Bus bulbs, boarding islands, and curb realignments.

Low-cost carrier business model practices vary widely.

Low-cost carriers are intended to be low-cost, so in many cases employees work multiple roles.

Low-cost power strips often come with only one MOV mounted between the live and neutral wires.

The organization and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 ; the organization's Low-cost Housing Program won a World Habitat Award in 1998.

Low-cost passive RFID tags were designed to uniquely identify each item manufactured.

The program involved demolishing the rest of the makeshift houses left untouched by the fire, and the construction of the Shek Kip Mei Low-cost Housing Estate in their place.

* The May 1977 Dr. Dobb's Journal reprinted an article by Joseph Weisbecker of RCA Laboratories (" A Practical, Low-cost, Home / School Microprocessor System ") describing the design philosophies and economies that went into designing the VIP -- which was at the time called FRED (" Flexible Recreational and Educational Device ").

Low-cost airlines remain a commonly-referenced example of a contestable market ; entrants have the possibility of leasing aircraft and should be able to respond to high profits by quickly entering and exiting.

The original Athlon ( now called Athlon Classic ) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors for a significant period of time.

Although careful programmers were coming to realize that use of incompatible extensions caused expensive portability problems, and were therefore using programs such as The PFORT Verifier, it was not until after the 1977 standard, when the National Bureau of Standards ( now NIST ) published FIPS PUB 69, that processors purchased by the U. S. Government were required to diagnose extensions of the standard.

With the increasing popularity of multi-core processors, programmers now exploit thread-level parallel Gaussian elimination algorithms to increase the speed of computing.

The advances made in signal processors to synthesize an approximation of a good concert hall can now provide a somewhat more realistic illusion of listening in a concert hall.

With SGI's decision to transition to the Itanium and IA32 architectures, use of MIPS processors on the desktop has now disappeared almost completely.

In December 2001 IBM extended OS / 390 to include support for 64-bit zSeries processors and added various other improvements, and the result is now named z / OS.

While desktop publishing software still provides extensive features necessary for print publishing, modern word processors now have publishing capabilities beyond those of many older DTP applications, blurring the line between word processing and desktop publishing.

Vector-processing architectures are now considered separate from SIMD machines, based on the fact that vector machines processed the vectors one word at a time through pipelined processors ( though still based on a single instruction ), whereas modern SIMD machines process all elements of the vector simultaneously.

These sorts of techniques are now commonly used in the ' multi-media ' instructions of current processors.

ARMv6 processors represented a step up in performance from standard ARMv5 cores, and are used in some cases, but Cortex processors ( ARMv7 ) now provide faster and more power-efficient options than all those prior generations.

In fact, DB2 UDB Version 8 for z / OS now requires a 64-bit system and cannot run on earlier processors, and DB2 for z / OS maintains certain unique software differences in order to serve its sophisticated customers.

They are also the only dual core Socket 939 processors are not easily available now that the Athlon 64 X2s for that platform have been discontinued, these processors are becoming more and more difficult to find.

Because of the philosophy change, Intel now faces the challenge of making consumers compare its processors based on the PR system rather than raw clock speed, ironically a problem which Intel created itself.

As the power of digital signal processors has increased, adaptive filters have become much more common and are now routinely used in devices such as mobile phones and other communication devices, camcorders and digital cameras, and medical monitoring equipment.

Implementations of this sort of parallel / pipelined instruction system did not appear on modern commodity processors until the late 1990s, and vector instructions ( now known as SIMD ) until a few years later.

Since terminals were connected through various types of front-end processors ( as per common IBM timesharing practice both then and now ), and could therefore function without CPU attention for a considerable amount of time, MUSIC used variable-length time slices, which could, on compute-bound processing, reach a maximum of several seconds per time slice ; conversely, if a user filled the output buffer or reached a conversational read, the timeslice would end immediately.

Following Apple ’ s transition to using Intel processors exclusively in their Macintosh line of computers, Yellow Dog Linux has now been retargeted to support the Sony PlayStation 3 and IBM pSeries platforms extensively, while retaining its longstanding support for PowerPC-based Apple hardware.

On newer processors, the hypervisor is now designed to take advantage of the extensions.

The later eXtended Memory Specification ( XMS ), also now obsolete, is a standard for, in principle, simulating bank switching for memory above 1 MB ( called " extended memory "), which is not directly addressable in the Real Mode of x86 processors in which MS-DOS runs.

The first processors to be equipped with MAC units were digital signal processors, but the technique is now also common in general-purpose processors.