Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.

The first used the same graphics processor as the BBC Micro in mode 7 — the SAA5050 — but used software to ensure that it was fed with the correct graphics data.

Program faults caused by incorrect compiler behavior can be very difficult to track down and work around ; therefore, compiler implementors invest significant effort to ensure the correctness of their software.

Although the unused bits were not implemented in hardware such as TLBs, the architecture required implementations to check if they are zero to ensure software compatibility with implementations that implemented a larger or the full virtual address space.

Eiffel's most important contribution to software engineering is design by contract ( DbC ), in which assertions, preconditions, postconditions, and class invariants are employed to help ensure program correctness without sacrificing efficiency.

Standards and cryptographic software and hardware to perform encryption are widely available, but successfully using encryption to ensure security may be a challenging problem.

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients have the same rights under which it was obtained and that manufacturers of consumer products incorporating free software provide the software as source code.

He developed a free software definition and the concept of " copyleft ", designed to ensure software freedom for all.

To ensure that people can access the documents created with Adobe Acrobat, the software publisher created a viewer program, the Acrobat Reader, and made it available for free.

Although this claim is justified, it is in reality the result of network effect: hardware and software manufacturers ensure that their products are compatible with Windows in order to have access to the large market of Windows users.

* Software engineering management: The application of management activities — planning, coordinating, measuring, monitoring, controlling, and reporting — to ensure that the development and maintenance of software is systematic, disciplined, and quantified.

Eventually, Copyleft and the GNU General Public License would ensure that a hacker's software could remain free software.

Sorcery automatically recompiles installed software as necessary to ensure continued compatibility and usability when installed libraries are updated to newer or older versions.

Other jurisdictions, including Nevada, randomly audit slot machines to ensure that they contain only approved software.

Smaller computers often use less flexible but more automatic boot loader mechanisms to ensure that the computer starts quickly and with a predetermined software configuration.

It identifies four procedures that must be defined for each software project to ensure that a sound SCM process is implemented.

The ADB Virtual Gateway uses software that resides within the middleware and is based on open standards, including DLNA home networking and the DTCP-IP standard, to ensure that all content, including paid-for encrypted content like Pay TV services, can only be accessed by secure CE devices.

The CPO was created to ensure the stadium could never again be sold to developers.

In the 1990s a group of concerned landowners, individuals and real estate developers formed the Northern Edwards Aquifer Resource Council ( NEARC ) with the goal of obtaining a United States Fish and Wildlife Service 10-A permit ( known as an Incidental Take Permit ) for the entire county by identifying and preserving a sufficient number of caves with endangered species to ensure survival of the species.

* Database developers and administrators often use GUIDs as primary keys for database tables to ensure uniqueness between databases.

The original developers are assisting with the new deployment, and investigating the robots. txt issue, to ensure a repeat performance does not occur.

Unit tests are typically written and run by software developers to ensure that code meets its design and behaves as intended.

This scheme could allow developers to balance the load between many computers instead of a central server to ensure availability of their product.

Although the system software did little to specifically support them, the popularity of Desk Accessories led many application developers to ensure good cooperative multitasking support even from the early days.

It helps ensure that the application is written for testability, as the developers must consider how to test the application from the outset, rather than worrying about it later.

An internal source code audit was conducted to ensure that only clean room reverse engineering was used, and all developers were made to sign an agreement committing them to comply with the project's policies on reverse engineering.

In Synon / 2 ( now CA 2E ), developers use a specialized language to define an application's data model and the rules that ensure its integrity.

This becomes a significant challenge to software developers, who must know how every device available works to ensure it's compatible.

This paper summarizes the ideas expressed at the 2007 IEDC Federal Forum and provides policy recommendations for both economic developers and federal policy makers that aim to ensure America remains globally competitive in light of current domestic and international challenges.

* Computer game developers use " tech demos " to rouse and maintain interest to titles still in development ( because game engines are usually ready before the art is finished ) and to ensure functionality by early testing.

Odin made a very deliberate attempt to ensure they were mistaken for Ultimate Play The Game, one of the most critically acclaimed game developers of the 1980s.

The onus falls to the developers to ensure the variable is only modified through the mutator method and not modified directly.

Performing daily builds helps ensure that developers can work knowing with reasonable certainty that any new bugs that show up are a result of their own work done within the last day.

Such " worksheets " for transport, community development, water, waste and renewable energy and more, will be produced to assist developers in their planning of " eco-towns " to ensure the strict criteria as set out by the Government's publication " Eco-towns Prospectus ".

The PSP is intended to help a developer improve their personal process ; therefore PSP developers are expected to continue adapting the process to ensure it meets their personal needs.

In both instances, the program developers recommend careful monitoring and coaching of the program in order to ensure a high fidelity of implementation.

For this reason, timeboxing depends on the prioritisation ( with the MoSCoW Method for example ) of deliverables, to ensure that it is the project stakeholders who determine the important deliverables rather than software developers.

Although there are not currently any historic protections in place for the community at large, The Kirkwood Neighbors ’ Organization and Neighborhood Planning Unit-O work closely with developers, builders and the City of Atlanta to ensure that new development is sensitive to a variety of needs throughout the community.

The developers should be given access to the customer ; the team leader should provide support and help in difficult situations, as well as ensure that skepticism does not ruin the team ’ s spirit.

Unlike most other browsers currently in use, IE6 does not fully nor properly support CSS version 2, which makes it difficult for web developers to ensure compatibility with the browser without degrading the experience for users of more modern browsers.

However, he operated the village on the principles the developers of the South Wales Coalfield, where by workers were paid in a local currency to ensure that their wages were spent within the village, and that the men did not over drink alcohol.