On May 12, 2010, the Atari 2600 version of Keystone Kapers was released on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs.

On personal computers, the key can be used by software in several different ways, such as to switch between multiple login sessions, to terminate a program, or to interrupt a modem connection.

On the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 computers, the Break is accessed by pressing Space.

On personal computers and small workstations, the CPU is housed in a single silicon chip called a microprocessor.

On November 2, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University computer science graduate student, unleashed what became known as the Morris worm, disrupting an estimated 10 % of the computers then on the Internet and prompting the formation of the CERT Coordination Center and Phage mailing list.

On Windows computers, extensions consist of a dot ( period ) at the end of a file name, followed by a few letters to identify the type of file.

On Apple Macintosh computers, there are keyboard shortcuts for the most common diacritics ; Option-e followed by a vowel places an acute accent, Option-u followed by a vowel gives an umlaut, option-c gives a cedilla, etc.

On computers, the availability of code pages determines whether one can use certain diacritics.

On the Apple II, unlike modern computers that use standardized device drivers to manage device communications, the operating system directly controlled the step motor that moves the floppy drive head, and also directly interpreted the raw data called nibbles read from each track to find the data sectors.

On Atari 8-bit computers, the most common protection method was via " bad sectors ".

On 7 April 1986 Amstrad announced it had bought from Sinclair Research "... the worldwide rights to sell and manufacture all existing and future Sinclair computers and computer products, together with the Sinclair brand name and those intellectual property rights where they relate to computers and computer related products.

On meters that allow interfacing with computers, optical isolation may protect attached equipment against high voltage in the measured circuit.

On modern general purpose computers, this can take tens of seconds and typically involves performing power-on self-test, locating and initializing peripheral devices, and then finding, loading and starting an operating system.

On shared computers, whether time-sharing, batch processing, or server systems, core dumps allow off-line debugging of the operating system, so that the system can go back into operation immediately.

On the other hand, laptop computers offer portability that desktop systems can not due to their small form factor.

On the first computers, with no operating system, every program needed the full hardware specification to run correctly and perform standard tasks, and its own drivers for peripheral devices like printers and punched paper card readers.

On computers and data links using 8-bit bytes this left the top bit of each Byte free for use as a parity, flag bit, or meta data control bit.

On January 12, 2010, Google reported a large cyber attack on its computers and corporate infrastructure that began a month earlier, which included accessing two Gmail accounts and the theft of Google's intellectual property.

On computers running Mac OS X, disk images are now ubiquitous for software downloads, typically downloaded with a web browser.

On personal computers, SLIP has been largely replaced by the Point-to-Point Protocol ( PPP ), which is better engineered, has more features and does not require its IP address configuration to be set before it is established.

On the second day of the contest, when users were allowed to physically interact with the computers ( the prior day permitted only network attacks ), Charlie Miller compromised Mac OS X through an unpatched vulnerability of the PCRE library used by Safari.

On present-day computers, performance is determined more by cache and CPU pipeline considerations than by strict operation counts, and a slight difference in arithmetic cost is unlikely to be significant.

On September 4, 2008, Sony announced a worldwide voluntary product inspection and rework program for TZ-series notebook computers manufactured since June 2007.

On affected Vaio notebook computers, the cooling fan will start to make an unusual noise.

On the other hand, it is argued that as chess enters certain endgames, databases must be employed by computers to deal with added complexities.

* On systems that support one-button mice, context menus are typically opened by pressing and holding the primary mouse button ( this works on the icons in the Dock on Mac OS X ) or by pressing a keyboard / mouse button combination ( e. g. Ctrl-mouse click in Mac OS ).

On those nights, he would play his guitar until he fell asleep holding it, a habit which lasted his whole life.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

On an Attic red-figured bell krater of ca 440 BC in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Persephone is rising as if up stairs from a cleft in the earth, while Hermes stands aside ; Hecate, holding two torches, looks back as she leads her to the enthroned Demeter.

On 26 March 2007, Porsche took its holding of Volkswagen AG shares to 30. 9 %, triggering a takeover bid under German law.

On 28 February 2008, Sony made a similar announcement, of impending sale to a consortium led by American investment banking giant ( now bank holding company ) Morgan Stanley.

On June 29, 1987, the government's presidential nominee Roh Tae-woo succumbed to the demands and announced the Declaration of Political Reforms which called for the holding of direct presidential elections and restoration of civil rights.

On the top of the throne was a dove holding a sparrow-hawk in its claws, symbolizing the dominion of Israel over the Gentiles.

On the next play, Dallas committed a 15-yard holding penalty on the 42-yard line, which was a spot foul, pushing the team all the way back to their own 27-yard line ( the NFL did not reduce the penalty for offensive holding to 10 yards until 1974 ).

On the play, Smith had a chance to force a fumble since Hostetler was holding the football with only his throwing hand.

On May 5, 2009, the Coyotes ' holding company, Dewey Ranch Hockey LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

On Valentine ’ s Day, February 14, 2003, on the eve of the Iraqi invasion by the Americans and the British, Ono heard about a romantic couple holding a love-in protest in their tiny bedroom in Addingham, West Yorkshire.

On 12 April 2009, in response to a hostage-taking incident off of the coast of Somalia by Somalian pirates, three Navy SEALs from DEVGRU simultaneously engaged and killed the three pirates who were closely holding the hostage, Captain Richard Phillips, of the freighter ship, the Maersk Alabama.

On the ground they move like all indrids with bipedal sideways hopping movements of the hind legs, holding their forelimbs up for balance.

On March 25, Palm Sunday, he commanded his monks to process through the monastery's vineyard, holding up icons so that they could be seen over the walls by the neighbors.

On the French side, the units holding St. Privat lost more than half their number in the village.

On the way to the holding cell the two young men were followed by a large crowd, whom Arthur lost no opportunity to harangue, even though they understood only German.

On 11 March 1893, after experiencing painful spasms for two hours, she died with Arthur holding her hand, of an unknown disease, perhaps tuberculosis, although the symptoms fit a heart attack also.

On May 31, as Grant's army once again swung around the right flank of Lee's army, Union cavalry seized the crossroads of Old Cold Harbor, about 10 miles northeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, holding it against Confederate attacks until the Union infantry arrived.

On 9 June 1938, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Nationalist troops under Chiang Kai-Shek broke the levees holding back the river near the village of Huayuankou in Henan, causing what has been called a " war-induced natural disaster ".

On their new territory, the organized Prussians were soon able to go into winter quarters, holding all Silesia and investing the strongholds of Glogau, Brieg and Neisse.

On 2 April 1945, the Soviets launched the Vienna Offensive against the Germans holding the city and besieged it.

On July 22, 2011, Norwegian conservative Anders Behring Breivik launched a terror attack on the capital, bombing government offices in Oslo and orchestrating a shooting at Utøya Island in Buskerud, where the Workers ' Youth League ( the youth wing of the Labour Party ) was holding an annual youth camp.

On 18 March 2007, the tephra dam which had been holding back the crater lake burst, sending a lahar down the mountain.