Backplanes have grown in complexity from the simple Industry Standard Architecture ( ISA ) ( used in the original IBM PC ) or S-100 style where all the connectors were connected to a common bus.

Modern enthusiasts have created standard PC style IDE hard disk adapters for real and simulated PDP-8 computers.

MPs in the Cabinet therefore use the style " The Right Honourable "; Privy Counsellors in the House of Lords place the letters " PC " after their names to distinguish themselves, since all peers are " The Right Honourable " or hold a higher style as of right.

The DN3000 and DN4000 used 68k processors, but were housed in IBM PC style cases of the time and had IBM-AT compatible ISA expansion slots and PC-compatible disk drives.

* The PC style game port, supporting joystick and MIDI

Most PC users had to use " KA9Q " or " NOS "-a command line style client-to establish their TCP / IP connection to use ftp, gopher, telnet, etc.

He had previously been Rt Hon Dr Jack Cunningham, so following his enoblement he uses the style, Rt Hon Lord Cunningham of Felling, PC DL PhD.

This style of interface design rather than the " lean back or lean forward " model is what truly distinguishes Interactive TV from the web or PC.

As a former member of the Canadian Cabinet, he is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and thus has the right to the style The Honourable and the post-nominal designation PC for life.

The PC version is similar in style, although some of the compositions are different.

All of the dormitory style residence halls have a laundry room, prayer room, and a PC computer lab.

follow those of the N64 ( albeit with enhanced graphics ); however, it does inherit the PC version's remade soundtrack and relatively more static camera style ( albeit with options for zoom level ).

This system allows a " build-to-fit " approach: the end user initially provides a PC that fits their budget and any other needs with future options to improve the system, for example, by increasing the number of DMX outputs or additional console style panels.

became an online magazine, a PC gaming website with a different " cover " each month and a mailbag, which reviewed games with the same style of the original magazine.

In early 2009, it was revealed in PC Gamer magazine that they had changed the graphical style and added the fourth player character.

Zero is the precursor to the humorous style of writing used in magazines such as PC Zone, and in fact many of the original writers who contributed to Zero went on to submit work for PC Zone.

Thus, if the file were to be opened on a Windows PC the text would be readable ( although style information would be lost ).

Very similar to old style PC architecture, where mother board did not contain every vital piece, but disk controller, video card, network card etc.

Also released was Jurassic Park: Chaos Island, a Command & Conquer style strategy game for the PC.

Multiplot was the model for the PC based Chartman by the Cambridge company that also produced the Twin spreadsheet 1-2-3 clone which introduced HP 2640 style forms to PC applications.

In the PC, Mega Drive / Genesis and Amiga versions, the art style is different from the NES version, much richer and closer to 60s cartoons like The Jetsons.

In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Escom, a German PC manufacturer, who created the subsidiary company Amiga Technologies.

The quality of the Amiga's sound output, and the fact that the hardware is ubiquitous and easily addressed by software, were standout features of Amiga hardware unavailable on PC platforms for years.

Versions were also released for the IBM PC and compatibles, and the Apple IIGS.

The system was slow by today's standards, but at the time the additional cost and complexity of networking on PC machines was such that it was common that Macs were the only networked personal computers in an office.

A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.

By the mid-1990s, however, companies were beginning to ask what the return was on the investment they had made in this loosely controlled PC software buying spree.

They were also published in PC Plus magazine for a short time, and several books of the stories have also been released.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

Phoenix Technologies would shortly follow their lead, but soon " clone BIOSes " were available from many other companies who reverse engineered IBM's design, then sold their version to the PC clone manufacturers.

By the mid-1990s, Compaq's price war had enabled it to overtake IBM and Apple, while other IBM PC Compatible manufacturers such as Packard Bell and AST were driven from the market.

At the time of their 2002 merger, Compaq and HP were the second and third largest PC manufacturers, so their combination made them number one.

In-game music was removed, many items were renamed to avoid drug and sex references, and several levels were altered to include areas from the Plutonium Pak ( such as a Duke Burger outlet being present in the second level where there wasn't one in the original PC version ).

Although we were competitors, I always had tremendous respect for his contributions to the PC industry.

* Dark Seed and its sequel, Dark Seed II, both adventure games for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, Macintosh and the PC, were published by Cyberdreams.

As the 1980s began, hard disk drives were a rare and very expensive additional feature on personal computers ( PCs ); however by the late ' 80s, their cost had been reduced to the point where they were standard on all but the cheapest PC.

Most hard disk drives in the early 1980s were sold to PC end users as an external, add-on subsystem.

Businesses were moving en masse to the IBM PC platform by that time, so portability was no longer a significant differentiator.

The 1990s, though, were a turbulent time for graphics development, as the computer industry was collapsing, with long-time computer makers such as Tandy / Radio Shack, Atari, and Commodore / Amiga disappearing, and the PC and Macintosh markets were fighting for dominance.

While the SSDD drives initially were the only floppy drives available for the model 5150 PC, IBM later switched to DSDD drives, and the majority of 5150 PCs sold eventually shipped with one or two DSDD drives.

The first 80486-based PCs were announced in late 1989, but some advised that people wait until 1990 to purchase an 80486 PC because there were early reports of bugs and software incompatibilities.