On January 1, 1992, Atari Corp. formally announced that production of the Atari 7800, the Atari 2600, the Atari 8-bit computer line, and the Atari XE Game System would cease.

On his work there Atkinson said, " what Numenta is doing is more fundamentally important to society than the personal computer and the rise of the Internet.

On a BBC Micro computer, the key generates an interrupt which would normally cause a warm restart of the computer.

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 a computer running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Unix running the X Window System, clicking the secondary mouse button ( usually the right button ) opens a context menu for the region that is under the mouse pointer.

On two-dimensional display devices such as computer monitors the display size or viewable image size is the actual amount of screen space that is available to display a picture, video or working space, without obstruction from the case or other aspects of the unit's design.

On June 28, 1984 Compaq released the Compaq Deskpro, a 16-bit desktop computer using an Intel 8086 microprocessor running at 7. 14 MHz.

On receiving a valid request, the server assigns the computer an IP address, a lease ( length of time the allocation is valid ), and other IP configuration parameters, such as the subnet mask and the default gateway.

On a typical computer system, a ' double precision ' ( 64-bit ) binary floating-point number has a coefficient of 53 bits ( one of which is implied ), an exponent of 11 bits, and one sign bit.

On the Internet the World Wide Web was established in 1990 by English computer scientist and innovator Tim Berners-Lee.

On the Building Windows 8 blog, it was announced that a computer running Windows 8 can boot up much faster than Windows 7.

On many insulin pumps, this history can be uploaded to a computer and graphed for trend analysis.

On computer systems in use today, the Username is the most common form of identification and the Password is the most common form of authentication.

* On the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000, the Nanites ( voiced variously by Kevin Murphy, Paul Chaplin, Mary Jo Pehl, and Bridget Jones )-are self-replicating, bio-engineered organisms that work on the ship, they are microscopic creatures that reside in the Satellite of Love's computer systems.

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.

On high-end printers, PostScript processors remain common, and their use can dramatically reduce the CPU work involved in printing documents, transferring the work of rendering PostScript images from the computer to the printer.

On 17 September 1971, NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report read a news bulletin issued by the RCA Board of Directors just minutes before the broadcast, announcing the Board's decision to cease operation of its general-purpose computer systems division ( RCA-CSD ).

On March 16, 2007, the University of Saarland revealed an implementation of a high-performance ray tracing engine that allowed computer games to be rendered via ray tracing without intensive resource usage.

On the Hyundai / Hynix Super-16 computer, pressing will hard boot the system ( it will reboot when is unresponsive, and it will invoke startup memory tests that are bypassed on soft-boot ).

In the original article (" On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem ", see also references below ), Turing imagines not a mechanism, but a person whom he calls the " computer ", who executes these deterministic mechanical rules slavishly ( or as Turing puts it, " in a desultory manner ").

On the Internet, a hostname is a domain name assigned to a host computer.

On the computer he finds a list of games, starting with general strategy games like chess, checkers, backgammon, and poker and then progressing to titles like " Theaterwide Biotoxic ", " Chemical Warfare " and " Global Thermonuclear War ", but cannot proceed further.

On several computer systems from Sun Microsystems, the command " xyzzy " is used to enter the interactive shell of the u-boot bootloader.

On Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.

On the basis of its life history, we like to think that Andrena is more primitive than the bumblebees.

On the whole, audiences will like this performance.

On a thrusting spray thick with thorns and dewdrops and swelling pink buds, like a summer Valentine, a bird balanced and sang, nondescriptly brown and alive with its own music, a little engine of song.

On the defensive, he added, `` I wish you'd think what it must be like for her to be without Greg, to be a new widow, a young widow ''.

On departure for Lambaréné in 1913 he was presented with a pedal piano, a piano with pedal attachments ( to operate like an organ pedal-keyboard ).

On slower or congested links ( 622 Mbit / s and below ), ATM does make sense, and for this reason most asymmetric digital subscriber line ( ADSL ) systems use ATM as an intermediate layer between the physical link layer and a Layer 2 protocol like PPP or Ethernet.

" On the first lines of the book is the line " My old man would sit there like a feudal lord.

On the other hand the founding polyp of a coral has a shape like that of its daughter polyps, and coral zooids have no coelom or lophophore.

He argues that the power ballad broke into the mainstream of American consciousness in 1976 as FM radio gave a new lease of life to earlier songs like Led Zeppelin's " Stairway to Heaven " ( 1971 ), Aerosmith's " Dream On " ( 1973 ), and Lynyrd Skynyrd's " Free Bird " ( 1974 ).

On the higher islands and somewhat wetter islands, exclusively in mountainous areas, like Santo Antao island, the climate is suitable for the development of dry monsoon forest, and laurel forest as this vegetation is believed to have been present in the past.

On arrival, Columbus observed the Taíno dwellings, describing them as " looking like tents in a camp.

On the other, there are approximants that behave like consonants in forming onsets but are articulated very much like vowels, as the y in English yes.

* The song " Felicia " on the Straight On Till Morning album by Blues Traveler includes the line " I wouldn't feel so much like Casey who never got to bat.

On a slowly rotating planet, for example, it might be adaptive for photosynthesis to be performed by " plants " that can move to remain in the light, like Earth's sunflowers ; while non-photosynthetic " animals ", much like Earth's fungi, might have a lesser need to move from place to place on their own.

On " Alone Again, Natura-Diddily ", a Christian rock singer named Rachel Jordan ( played by singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin ) sings that she " was drinking like a Dartmouth boy.

On the base of the statue were inscribed the opening words of the Scotland Act: " There Shall Be A Scottish Parliament ", a phrase to which Dewar himself famously said, " I like that!

" On his view ," he writes, " the moralist is not like a courtroom judge, who resolves disputes.

On the most basic level, electronegativity is determined by factors like the nuclear charge ( the more protons an atom has, the more " pull " it will have on negative electrons ) and the number / location of other electrons present in the atomic shells ( the more electrons an atom has, the farther from the nucleus the valence electrons will be, and as a result the less positive charge they will experience — both because of their increased distance from the nucleus, and because the other electrons in the lower energy core orbitals will act to shield the valence electrons from the positively charged nucleus ).

On the other hand, it has been said that some aspects of shared traditions normally found in cultural communities, like clothing and cooking, aren't found in the Esperanto community.

On 15 January, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, like Aaltonen a former officer in the Russian army, was appointed supreme commander of the White Guards, and on 25 January the Senate renamed the White Guards the Finnish White Army.

On guitars that have them, these components and the wires that connect them allow the player to control some aspects of the sound like volume or tone.