On January 5, 1991 he purchased an Intel 80386-based IBM PC before receiving his MINIX copy, which in turn enabled him to begin work on Linux.

On the other hand IBM donated Object REXX for Windows and OS / 2 to the Open Object REXX project maintained by the REXX Language Association on Sourceforge.

On 84-key keyboards ( except the 84-key IBM Model M space saver keyboard ), SysRq was a key of its own.

On System / 370 and some later systems, the functions of the switches and the LOAD button are simulated using selectable areas on the screen of a graphics console, often an IBM 2250-like device or an IBM 3270-like device.

On 12 August 1981, the first IBM PC went on sale.

On the Validity of Throughput as a Characteristic of Computer Input, IBM Research Report RJ 10253, 2002, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California.

On April 23, lawsuits were filed against 31 companies, including Adobe Systems, Apple Computer and IBM, for infringement of their patent.

On the positive side, Pink would become a personality on top of the IBM Workplace OS.

On October 11, 1995 Manzi announced his resignation from Lotus ( by then known as the Lotus Development division of IBM ).

On March 13, 1984 after the Business Process Improvement was under way at IBM, John Akers stated at the American Electronics Association seminar on Quality in Boston, Our studies show that more than 50 percent of the total cost of billing relates to preventing, catching, or fixing errors.

On 23 August 2006, IBM announced its intention to acquire Internet Security Systems for $ 1. 3 billion.

On IBM POWER systems, Open Firmware (" ok " prompt ) can be accessed through the SMS Boot Menu.

On July 6, 1988, the day of the elections, a system shutdown of the IBM AS / 400 that the government was using to count the votes occurred.

On an IBM PC compatible machine, the BIOS selects a boot device, then copies the first sector from the device ( which may be a MBR, VBR or any executable code ), into physical memory at memory address 0x7C00.

On March 7, 2003, during McBride's tenure as CEO of the company, The SCO Group initiated litigation ( SCO v. IBM ) against IBM, alleging breach of contract and copyright infringement claims connected to Unix.

On March 6, 2003, the SCO Group ( formerly known as Caldera International and Caldera Systems ) filed a $ 1 billion lawsuit in the US against IBM for allegedly “ devaluing ” its version of the UNIX operating system.

On the PC side, the 8 " diskette disappeared with the TRS-80 Model II Business Computer ; the 5¼ " diskette became the IBM PC standard in 1981 and the 3½ " diskette was first introduced by IBM with the announcement of the PC Convertible in 1986.

On machines with segment registers, e. g., the access registers on an IBM System / 370 in ESA mode, the address space size is limited only by OS constraints, e. g., the need to fit the mapping tables into the available storage.

On January 30, 2004, Bradley retired from IBM.

On 5 November 2008, IBM introduced a SupportPac containing the new CICS Explorer Eclipse-based graphical tooling interface for CICS.

On IBM System z servers, CICS easily supports thousands of transactions per second, making it a mainstay of enterprise computing.

On a PC you will usually have the ability to change the platform software.

On the NASDAQ the identifying fifth letter " Q " at the end of a stock symbol indicates the company is in bankruptcy ( formerly the " Q " was placed in front of the pre-existing stock symbol ; a celebrated example was Penn Central, whose symbol was originally " PC " and became " QPC " after the company filed Chapter 11 in 1970 ).

On one hand, Compaq struggled to compete in the PC market with the Dell Computer Corporation, which sold directly to buyers, avoiding the dealer channel and its markup, and built each machine to order to keep inventories and costs at a minimum.

On the PC compatible platform, an entire family of operating systems was called DOS.

On the other hand, to achieve this simplicity, thin clients sometimes lag behind thick clients ( PC Desktops ) in terms of extensibility.

On the other hand, on-line RSS-readers are available on almost any PC connected to the Internet.

Screenshot from a multiplayer game on the PC version. On January 16, 2002 LucasArts launched a new website for Jedi Outcast.

On November 15, 2006 LucasArts announced that Jedi Outcast would feature with Star Wars: Battlefront, Star Wars: Empire at War, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars: Republic Commando and a 14-day trial of Star Wars Galaxies in a compilation release entitled Star Wars: The Best of PC.

On November 19, 1998, Half-Life was released for the PC.

On its release, critics hailed its overall presentation and numerous scripted sequences, and it won over 50 PC Game of the Year awards.

On average, on a PC of year 2012 build, calculations with double precision are 1. 1-1. 6 times slower than with single precision.

On November 7, 2006 he also produced Lumines II for PSP, the sequel to the popular original ( this time supplementing the original score with a heavy integration of music videos ), and a shooter / puzzle hybrid game called Every Extend Extra ( a heavily-modified ' synesthesia ' update to an existing PC freeware title, Every Extend ," by indie developer " Omega "), which was released on August 7, 2006.

On recent PC graphics cards ( 1999 – 2005 ), z-buffer management uses a significant chunk of the available memory bandwidth.

On file systems of mainframe systems such as MVS, VMS, and PC systems such as CP / M and derivative systems such as MS-DOS, the extension is a separate namespace from the filename.

On October 15, the 1st PC Regt.

On December 29, the 4th PC Regiment was activated and constituted by PC units from the provinces of Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Tarlac, and Zambales.

On June 7, 1999, Lord's PC party overcame an early deficit in the polls to pull out a landslide victory in the provincial general election, winning 44 of 55 seats in the legislature.

On December 13, 2006, Lord announced that he was resigning as PC leader, further he said he would resign his legislative seat in Moncton East on January 31, 2007.

On August 9, 2011, Netflix released a Google Chrome web store item for Chrome OS, PC and Mac, but it does not enable Netflix streaming on Linux machines.

On October 28, 2010, Cyanide Studios released the Legendary Edition of Blood Bowl for PC only.

On the PC platform, in particular, it became one of the best-selling software titles for a number of years.