Microprocessors such as the Intel 8008, the direct predecessor of the 8080 and the 8086, used in early personal computers, could also perform a small number of operations on four bits, such as the DAA ( Decimal Add Adjust ) instruction, and the auxiliary carry ( AC / NA ) flag, which were used to implement decimal arithmetic routines.

Cyborgs were brought back by the AI named LEGION, ( a predecessor to CABAL ) under direct orders from Kane.

This argument is the direct predecessor of modern ideas of a brain in a vat and many popular conceptions of cyberspace take Descartes's ideas as their starting point.

The Chinese fire lance was the direct predecessor to the modern concept of the firearm.

: * means a unique language ( no direct predecessor )

* VT20 — Terminal with PDP-11 / 05 with direct mapped character display for text editing and typesetting ( predecessor of the VT71 )

Its most direct predecessor is DSSSL, a language that performed the same function for full SGML that XSLT performs for XML Some members of the standards committee that developed XSLT, including James Clark, had previously worked on DSSSL.

Neo-Babylonian astronomy can thus be considered the direct predecessor of much of ancient Greek mathematics and astronomy, which in turn is the historical predecessor of the European ( Western ) scientific revolution.

The Fatherland Front government was Soviet dominated and the direct predecessor of the People's Republic of Bulgaria ( 1946 – 1990 ).

Another hypothesis, voiced by Paul Wexler, is that Knaanic is indeed the direct predecessor of Yiddish and that the language became later Germanized.

A related design appears to be the " HG-1 ", which was described as being a direct predecessor of the SSME, although the exact relationship between the RS-129 and HG-1 is unclear.

Lymon's high-voiced sound is said to be a direct predecessor of the girl group sound, and the list of performers who name him as an influence include Michael Jackson, Ronnie Spector, Diana Ross, The Chantels, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Len Barry, and The Beach Boys, among others.

RUNOFF is a direct predecessor of the runoff document formatting program of Multics, which in turn was the ancestor of the roff and nroff document formatting programs of Unix, and their descendants.

The earliest surviving poetry written in Anglo-Saxon, the most direct predecessor of modern English, may have been composed as early as the 7th century.

AM Los Angeles launched the national career of Regis Philbin and was a direct predecessor to his syndicated talk show Live!

The direct predecessor of the modern Fleurdelisé was created by Elphège Filiatrault, a parish priest in Saint-Jude, Quebec.

The dame de voyage ( French ) or dama de viaje ( Spanish ) was a direct predecessor to today's sex dolls that originated in the seventeenth century.

In addition, the grapheme transliterates cuneiform orthography of Sumerian and Akkadian or, and ( based on Akkadian orthography ) the Hittite phoneme, as well as the phoneme of Semitic languages, transliterating shin ( Phoenician and its descendants ), the direct predecessor of Cyrillic ш.

He did much to actually initiate all that through his funding of research which led to a great deal of it, including today's canonical graphical user interface, and the ARPANET, the direct predecessor to the Internet.

The WELS's direct predecessor, known as The German Evangelical Ministerium of Wisconsin was founded in 1850 by several churches in and around Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

( Craig Morton, his direct predecessor in Denver, also wore number 7 and is in the Ring of Fame alongside Elway ).

The game is not a direct sequel to its predecessor, Oblivion, but instead takes place 200 years later, in the land called Skyrim, in Tamriel.

It is the direct predecessor organization to today's National Hockey League ( NHL ).

So named due to its resemblance to a traditional agricultural plough ( or more specifically two ploughshares ), many manufacturers produce a plough-style design, all based on or direct copies of the original CQR ( Secure ), a 1933 design patented in the UK ( US patent in 1934 ) by mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

country code-55 ; landing point for a number of submarine cables, including Atlantis 2, that provide direct links to South and Central America, the Caribbean, the US, Africa, and Europe ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ), 1 Inmarsat ( Atlantic Ocean region east ), connected by microwave relay system to Mercosur Brazilsat B3 satellite earth station ( 2007 )

This means that the country has an IASA Category 1 rating and that Croatian air carriers are authorized to establish direct flights from Croatia to the US.

Air Greenland and Continental Airlines formerly ran direct flights from the US East Coast from 2007 to 2008, but these were discontinued.

( As it happens, no financial assistance was provided to LTCM by the US Federal Reserve, so there was no direct cost to US taxpayers, but a large bailout had to be mounted by a number of financial institutions.

Investments in Australia totaled US $ 8. 1 billion in 1988, accounting for 4. 4 percent of Japanese direct investment abroad.

Mauritius has attracted US $ 10. 98 billion in Foreign direct investment inflows.

US and European government sanctions against the military government, coupled with boycotts and other direct pressure on corporations by western supporters of the Burmese democracy movement, have resulted in the withdrawal from Burma of most U. S. and many European companies.

With the direct intervention of North Vietnam in the South with the Tet Offensive of 1968, US forces suffered heavy losses.

After direct foreign investment of US $ 84 million in 2001, only US $ 9 million in investment came from abroad in 2002.

The originators of hip hop music in the 1970s had been Jamaican-born New Yorkers, but new US regional forms of MCing and DJing arose, and the genre's rise to mainstream success quickly severed it from direct Caribbean antecedents.

Without obtaining approval from his boss, Vogel bought the rights to the script, despite the high price of US $ 2 million and the stipulation that Shyamalan could direct the film.

Among the defeated bills was one allowing merchant ships to arm themselves, and another allowing the US government to make direct arms sales to the allies.

From 1988 to December 2004, cumulative foreign direct investment ( FDI ) commitments totaled US $ 46 billion.

In 2003 new foreign direct investment commitments were US $ 1. 5 billion.

Pledged foreign direct investment US $ 21. 3 billion for 2007 and a record US $ 31. 6 billion for the first half of 2008.

In British usage, barbecuing refers to a fast cooking process directly over high heat, while grilling refers to cooking under a source of direct, high heat — known in the US and Canada as broiling.

General Electric Company ( backed by Thomas Edison and J. P. Morgan ) had proposed to power the electric exhibits with direct current originally at the cost of US $ 1. 8 million.

Ben Bernanke, Princeton professor and current chairman of the US Federal Reserve, has argued that monetary policy could respond to zero interest rate conditions by direct expansion of the money supply.

In some cases, multiple factors may remove the economic basis for a community ; some former mining towns on U. S. Route 66 suffered both mine closures when the resources were depleted and loss of highway traffic as US 66 was diverted away from places like Oatman, Arizona onto a more direct path.

In the early days of US automobile use, people wanted to see the gasoline they were about to buy in a big glass pitcher, a direct measure of volume and quality via appearance.