Unlike earlier works of interactive fiction which only understood commands of the form ' verb noun ', Infocom's parser could understand a wider variety of sentences.

Unlike other mainframe systems, BS2000 / OSD provides exactly the same user and programming interface in all operating modes ( batch, interactive and online transaction processing ) and regardless of whether it is running natively or as a guest system in a virtual machine.

Unlike a traditional museum, where the exhibits are for display only, the majority of the exhibits at the Science Centre were interactive, while many others were live demonstrations ( metalworking for example ).

Unlike many games, almost all world features are interactive and well integrated-the libraries contain large volumes of real information you have to use, the police actually enforce the law and have working police stations and cells, the taxis are functional, and you can indeed deal drugs with the drug dealers.

Unlike its predecessors, Zork Zero is a vast game, featuring a graphical interface with scene-based colours and borders, an interactive map, menus, an in-game hints system, an interactive Encyclopedia Frobozzica, and playable graphical mini-games.

Unlike SVG, Flash Lite can add audio and interactive elements without the use of other technologies such as JavaScript.

Unlike " computer art " which creates or displays traditional art via a computer, KiSS uses the computer as the medium, allowing the art to be not only animated, but also interactive.

Unlike other works of interactive fiction, the game was also in real time-if you left the keyboard for too long, events continued without you by automatically entering the " WAIT " command with the response " You wait-time passes ".

Unlike many fantasy settings, Glorantha emphasises religion, myth and belief to a level rarely seen in role-playing or fantasy fiction elsewhere.

Unlike many fictional universes, the component tales of Known Space were largely released as short stories or serials in various science fiction anthology magazines.

Unlike those in much mainstream science fiction, Hainish Cycle civilization does not possess reliable human faster-than-light travel, but does have technology for instanteous communication.

: Unlike the science fiction Western, the space Western transposes traditional genre themes onto a space frontier backdrop, updating them with futuristic technologies.

Unlike most other games of the genre that draw upon existing fantasy fiction, most of Asheron's Calls creatures are original, unique creatures.

Unlike that of other writers from the mining community, his fiction is more concerned with individuals, in particular women, than with politics.

Unlike most science fiction comics it has no captions, no speech balloons and no written sound effects.

Unlike Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, who helped kick-start the " new journalism " in the 1960s, McPhee produced a gentler, literary style of journalism by incorporating techniques from fiction.

Unlike nurses and physician assistants, paralegals have not caught the popular imagination and rarely are seen or mentioned in fictional or non-fiction legal television programs, or in legal fiction in print.

Unlike in crime fiction, thrillers keep the emphasis away from the gangster, melodrama or the detective in the crime-related plot, and rather focus more on the suspense and danger that is generated.

Unlike most other early games in the genre, it featured a science fiction setting inspired by the film Alien, but had gameplay that closely resembled later survival horror games in many ways.

Unlike the antinovel, or anti-fiction, metafiction is specifically fiction about fiction, i. e. fiction which self-consciously reflects upon itself.

Unlike Rendezvous with Rama, which depicted a utopian future and focused almost entirely on the hard science fiction elements regarding the scientific wonders of the alien spacecraft, Rama II and its sequels deconstruct Clarke's vision of human colonies throughout the solar system through a global economic crisis that forced their almost total deactivation.

Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons monsters, the beholder is an original creation for D & D, as it is not based on a creature from mythology or other fiction.

Unlike most detectives in crime fiction, McGee is neither a police officer nor a licensed private investigator ; instead, he is a self-described " salvage consultant " who recovers others ' property for a fee.

Unlike Heinlein, he does not attempt to explain Oz as science fiction, though he does deviate from the original corpus.

Unlike other works of legal fiction such as Perry Mason and Presumed Innocent, however, which are essentially mysteries that lawyers solve, L. A. Laws plots taught its tens of millions of viewers torts, ethics, and other basic legal ideas and dilemmas that comprise the first year of a legal education.

Unlike many science fiction stories, there are no alien civilizations.

Unlike many other recurring enemy extraterrestrial races in science fiction, the Aliens are not an intelligent civilization, but predatory creatures with no higher goals than the propagation of their species and the destruction of life that could pose a threat.

Unlike regular fan fiction, which generally remains within the boundaries of the canon set out by the author, alternative universe fiction writers like to explore the possibilities of pivotal changes made to characters ' history, motivations or environment.

Unlike bony fish, there is no direct control of the pigment cells by the nervous system, and this results in the colour change taking place more slowly than happens in fish.

Unlike conventional auctions, bids are non-refundable ; if one player bids 65 for psyche and another wins with a bid of 66, then the character with 66 is " superior " to the character with 65 even though there is only one bid difference.

Unlike the other Ainu clans currently living in Russia, there is considerable doubt whether the Nakamura clan of Kamchatka should be identified as Northern Kurils Ainu, Southern Kurils Ainu or as Kamchatka Ainu.

Unlike his translation of the Pastoral Care, Alfred here deals very freely with his original and though the late Dr. G. Schepss showed that many of the additions to the text are to be traced not to Alfred himself, but to the glosses and commentaries which he used, still there is much in the work which is solely Alfred's and highly characteristic of his style.

Unlike France or Germany, there are no special administrative courts of first instance in the Netherlands, but regular courts have an administrative " chamber " which specializes in administrative appeals.

Unlike the NES or Sega Master System, there were few add-on peripherals for the 7800, though its backwards compatibility feature allowed it to be compatible with most Atari 2600 peripherals.

Unlike a conventional tank water heater, the tank is filled only when there is sunlight.

Unlike in soccer, the convention in rugby is for the home side to accommodate its guests when there is a clash of kit.

Unlike binary-addressed computer main memory, there is nothing in a disk drive that influences it to have a total capacity easily expressed using a power of 1024.

Unlike precious metals such as gold or platinum, gem diamonds do not trade as a commodity: there is a substantial mark-up in the sale of diamonds, and there is not a very active market for resale of diamonds.

Unlike traditional HTML with its large range of character entity references, in XML there are only five predefined character entity references.

Unlike Association Croquet, there are no additional turns for hitting other balls.

Unlike the ETL-based data warehouse, the integrated source data systems and the data warehouse are all integrated since there is no transformation of dimensional or reference data.

Unlike other heliozoans, the microtubules are not in any regular geometric array, there does not appear to be a microtubule organizing center, and there is no distinction between the outer and inner cytoplasm.

Unlike most similar bacteria, enterobacteria generally lack cytochrome C oxidase, although there are exceptions ( e. g. Plesiomonas shigelloides ).

Unlike Maroni, there is no curfew on the Oyapock.

Unlike the feel of pain, which can be fully absent in some human conditions, there is no such condition as congenital absence of fear ( although psychopaths are known to have a much lessened feeling of fear ).

Unlike file sharing systems, there is no need for the uploader to remain on the network after uploading a file or group of files.

Unlike the old code of points, there are two separate scores.

Unlike other Indian schools of philosophy, the Cārvākas argued that there is nothing wrong with sensual indulgence.

Unlike most items, there is no limit on the number of Holy Orbs you may include in an army.

Unlike domain names on the Internet, there is no globally defined list of interwiki prefixes, so owners of a wiki must define a mapping appropriate to their needs.

Unlike in a large number of states, there is no domicile quota in JU as well as for the remaining engineering colleges admitting students through the WBJEE.