Unlike modern websites and online services that are typically hosted by third-party companies in commercial data centers, BBS computers ( especially for smaller boards ) were typically operated from the SysOp's home.

Unlike the modern historian, most chroniclers tended to take their information as they found it, and made little attempt to separate fact from legend.

Unlike a modern PC with the operating system on disk, a Dragon starts instantly when powered up.

Unlike the Progressive Era's conservation movement ( 1890s-1920s ), which was largely elitist consisting of largely of wealthy, political powerful men the modern environmental movement was a social movement with more popular support.

Unlike the current modern state of Switzerland, which operates under a federal government, the thirteen states were nearly independent, conducting their own domestic and foreign affairs.

Unlike modern digital computers, analog computers are not very flexible, and need to be rewired manually to switch them from working on one problem to another.

Unlike most modern hyena species, which are specialised bone-crushers, these dog-like hyenas were nimble-bodied, wolfish animals ; one species among them was Ictitherium viverrinum, which was similar to a jackal.

Unlike most modern stringed instruments, the lute's fretboard is mounted flush with the top.

Unlike modern taxonomists, these authors did not use the suffix " ales " in naming their orders.

Unlike some trams and light rail systems, modern monorails are always partitioned from other traffic and pedestrians.

Unlike the DC Universe, few of Marvel's 1940s characters have become major characters in modern publications ; Captain America is one exception, and to a lesser extent his contemporary, the Sub-Mariner, is as well, primarily because both of these characters were reintroduced to readers and to the Marvel Universe during the 1960s.

Unlike earlier pterosaurs such as Rhamphorhynchus and Pterodactylus, Pteranodon had toothless beaks, similar to those of modern birds.

Unlike older carbon steel barrels, which were limited to around 1, 000 shots before the extreme heat caused accuracy to fade, modern stainless steel barrels for target rifles are much more resistant to wear, allowing many thousands of rounds to be fired before accuracy drops.

Unlike the modern RFCs, many of the early RFCs were actual requests for comments.

Unlike other medieval and Renaissance authors, Boccaccio treats Jews with a respect that makes even modern readers feel comfortable.

Unlike Lyell, modern geologists do not apply uniformitarianism in the same way.

Unlike modern semiconductors, such a diode required painstaking adjustment of the contact to the crystal in order for it to rectify.

Unlike members of the violin family, which are tuned in fifths, viols are usually tuned in fourths with a major third in the middle, mirroring the tuning employed on the vihuela de mano and lute during the 16th century and similar to that of the modern six-string guitar.

" Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves.

Unlike modern suspension bridges, Telford used individually linked iron eye bars for the cables.

Unlike nearly all modern formats, the transform length cannot be varied to optimize coding transients.

Unlike their ancestor Poseidon who is always fully anthropomorphic in ancient art ( this has only changed in modern popular culture ), Tritons ' lower half is that of a fish, while the top half is presented in a human figure.

Unlike Russian and most other modern Slavic languages, Ukrainian does not have final devoicing.

Unlike most of the early LAN systems, AppleTalk was not built using the archetypal Xerox XNS system.

Unlike self-balancing binary search trees, the B-tree is optimized for systems that read and write large blocks of data.

Unlike the frequency domain approach, the use of the state space representation is not limited to systems with linear components and zero initial conditions.

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 most other DOS systems, it was integrated into the disk drives, not loaded into the computer's own memory.

Unlike standard DECT, the low power variant enables this standard to be used in battery powered devices such as smartphone app controllable home automation or security systems.

Unlike DLP systems ( where it is possible to use the same procedure for squaring and multiplication ) the EC addition is significantly different for doubling () and general addition () depending on the coordinate system used.

Unlike the related battles over operating systems, programming languages, and even source code indent style, choice of editor usually only affects oneself.

Unlike any other national cinemas, which developed in the context of relatively continuous and stable political systems, Germany witnesses major changes to its identity during the 20th Century.

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 d20 System and many other game systems, experience awards are in the form of character points, which have the same value as those used in character creation and can be applied directly to the character's abilities upon receipt.

Unlike governmental classification systems, the first level of market-based classification systems divides the economy into functionally related markets or industries.

Unlike systems such as the New York City Subway, few segments of the Underground have third or fourth tracks that allow trains to be routed around maintenance sites.

Unlike the SQL systems that emerged in the late 1970s and early 80's, MRDS used a command language only for basic data manipulation, equivalent to the or statements in SQL.

Unlike the 3 preceding current systems, it does require a constant input of energy, to provide the heating of its ionospheric path and the acceleration of auroral electrons and of positive ions.

Unlike traditional systems, under Mach a process, or " task ", can consist of a number of threads.

Unlike most civil law systems, common law systems follow the doctrine of stare decisis, by which most courts are bound by their own previous decisions in similar cases, and all lower courts should make decisions consistent with previous decisions of higher courts.

Unlike several later systems, this did not allow for party-list proportional representation.

Unlike the MIPS systems, which ran IRIX, the Itanium systems used SuSE Linux Enterprise Server with SGI enhancements as their operating system.