Unlike most such sports rivalries, it appeared to have developed almost spontaneously, although this was not exactly the case.

Unlike most incarnations of Miss Marple, this one smoked cigarettes.

Unlike pure metals, most alloys do not have a single melting point, but a melting range in which the material is a mixture of solid and liquid phases.

Unlike most theropods, Albertosaurus and other tyrannosaurids were heterodont, with teeth of different forms depending on their position in the mouth.

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

Unlike most Common-law jurisdictions, the majority of civil law jurisdictions have specialized courts or sections to deal with administrative cases which, as a rule, will apply procedural rules specifically designed for such cases and different from that applied in private-law proceedings, such as contract or tort claims.

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 the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

Unlike most cranes, it has a relatively large head and a proportionately thin neck.

Unlike Zealous, these British ships suffered relatively severe damage in the engagement ; Goliath lost most of its rigging, suffered damage to all three masts and received over 60 casualties.

Unlike other C-suite positions, which tend to be defined according to commonly designated responsibilities across most companies, the COO job tends to be defined in relation to the specific CEO with whom he / she works, given the close working relationship of these two individuals.

Unlike in most other role-playing games, eventual triumph of the players is not assumed.

Unlike its predecessor games, CoC assumed that most investigators would not survive, alive or sane, and that the only safe way to deal with the vast majority of nasty things described in the rule books was to run away.

Unlike feces, urine doesn't attract disease-spreading flies ( such as house flies or blow flies ), and it doesn't contain the most hardy of pathogens, such as parasitic worm eggs.

Unlike Inter-city, it stops at most or all stations between cities.

Unlike most sports, men and women compete and are ranked together.

Unlike other college football divisions and most other sports — collegiateor professional — the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A college football, does not employ a playoff system to determine a champion.

Unlike most ( private ) corporate bodies, creatures of statute cannot expand their business interests into other diverse areas.

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 many other succulents, the stem is the only part of most cacti where this vital process takes place.

Unlike most amnesiacs, Leonard retains his identity and the memories of events that occurred before the injury, but loses all ability to form new memories.

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

Unlike most social canids ( but similar to African wild dogs ), dholes let their pups eat first at a kill.

Unlike the violone, however, the fingerboard of the double bass is unfretted, and the double bass has fewer strings ( the violone, like most viols, generally had six strings, although some specimens had five or four ).

Unlike most other external DOS commands, it has not been transformed into a native Win32 program.

Unlike traditional Telidon systems, NABU terminals were complete home computers in their own right, using the Zilog Z80 CPU and running a CP / M clone, but booting and launching programs over the cable modem.

Unlike CP / CMS, VM / 370 was supported by IBM.

Unlike the CP-to-VM transition, however, which was a reimplementation, much of CMS was moved without modification from CP / CMS into VM / 370.

Unlike the UAW, which was born out of tumultuous struggles in which CP activists and other radicals played leading parts, the SWOC conducted a much more top-down organizing campaign subject to close control.

Unlike versions of Microsoft BASIC-80 that were customized by home computer manufacturers to use the particular hardware features of the computer, MBASIC relied only on the CP / M operating system calls for all input and output.

Unlike CP / CMS, IBM provided support for this version ( though it was still distributed in source code form for several releases ).

Unlike some others, such as Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union, " Red Mike " Quill remained on the left within the labor movement — albeit in a political atmosphere in which the boundaries had shifted drastically during the Cold War — after his split with the CP.

Unlike AIX / 370, AIX / ESA ran both natively as the host operating system, and as a guest under VM.

Unlike integrated archival and compression tools like PKZIP, WinZip, and WinRAR, the Unix tools ar, tar, cpio ( for " archiver ", " tape archiver " and " copy in / out " respectively ) act as archivers but not compressors.

Unlike the police and security forces, the Army and the People's Militia is organized along Soviet / Chinese models and precepts.

Unlike a number of other countries, rail travel in the United Kingdom has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years with kilometres / miles travelled matching and surpassing the highs of the 1940s ( see usage figures below ).

Unlike the USASF Worlds, this competition uses Level 6 / Collegiate style rules.

Unlike the case of the 1541 and 1571, the low-level disk format used by the 1581 is similar enough to the MS-DOS format as the 1581 is built around a WD1770 FM / MFM floppy controller chip.

Unlike other anime and manga, where jokes and references are often exclusory or require knowledge of Japanese culture and / or the workings and conventions of anime, Cowboy Bebop is accessible – western audiences can connect with the characters readily and more fully understand their motivations and struggles.

Unlike other handheld game consoles, the first Game. com consoles included two slots for game cartridges and could be connected to a 14. 4 kbit / s modem.

Unlike most Unix-like kernels, the Hurd uses a server – client architecture, built on a microkernel that is responsible for providing the most basic kernel services – coordinating access to the hardware: the CPU ( through process management and scheduling ), RAM ( via memory management ), and other various input / output devices ( via I / O scheduling ) for sound, graphics, mass storage, etc.

Unlike earlier anti-colonial movements, Islamic Jihad directed its attacks against what it believed were " apostate " leaders of Muslim states, leaders who held secular leanings or who had introduced or promoted Western / foreign ideas and practices into Islamic societies.

Unlike common serial ASCII terminals, the 3270 minimizes the number of I / O interrupts required by transferring large blocks of data known as data streams, and uses a high speed proprietary communications interface, using coaxial cable.

Unlike in the past there are many types of lutes encountered today: 5-course medieval lutes, renaissance lutes of 6 to 10 courses in many pitches for solo and ensemble performance of Renaissance works, the archlute of Baroque works, 11-course lutes in d-minor tuning for 17th century French, German and Czech music, 13 / 14-course d-minor tuned German Baroque Lutes for later High Baroque and Classical music, theorbo for basso continuo parts in Baroque ensembles, gallichons / mandoras, bandoras, orpharions and others.

Unlike the IBM PC, which used 8 kB of system ROM for power-on self-test ( POST ) and basic input / output system ( BIOS ), the Mac ROM was significantly larger ( 64 kB ) and held key OS code.

Unlike Windows NT, OS / 2 also always gave DOS programs the possibility of masking real hardware interrupts, so any DOS program could deadlock the machine this way.

Unlike nearly any other console ( except for the 3DO and CD-i ), the PC-FX was also available as an internal PC card for NEC PC-98 and AT / IBM PC compatibles.

Unlike most DA / SA semi-automatic pistols, for most revolvers, cocking the hammer with the thumb will give a more powerful hammer strike than when the hammer is cocked by pulling the trigger.

Unlike the " everything is a file " feature of Unix and its derivatives, on OS / 400 everything is an object ( with built-in persistence and garbage collection ).

Unlike SVCs, PVC are usually very seldom broken / disconnected.

Unlike its 1988 predecessor it was a compatible superset of the ISO 10162 / 10163 work that had been done internationally.

Unlike Kohl, Strauß did not want to continue as the leader of the CDU / CSU and remained Minister-President of Bavaria.

Unlike TCP / IP, socket numbers are part of the full network address in the IDP header, so that upper-layer protocols did not need to implement demultiplexing ; IDP also supplied packet types ( again, unlike IP ).