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 other hobbyist computers of its day, which were sold as kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60 + chips.

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 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 computers, however, Mentats are not simply calculators.

Unlike general-purpose computers, the PLC is designed for multiple inputs and output arrangements, extended temperature ranges, immunity to electrical noise, and resistance to vibration and impact.

Unlike most PC clones, several Tandy 1000 computers had MS-DOS built into ROM and could boot in a few seconds.

Unlike ordinary computers, servers usually can be configured, powered up and down or rebooted remotely, using out-of-band management.

Unlike modern computers, which use descendants of that technology for secondary storage on hard disk, the disk was the active computer memory.

Unlike the 8600's " four computers in one box " solution to the speed problem, the STAR was a new design using a unit that we know today as the vector processor.

Unlike the previous models, the A3000 came in a single-part case similar to the BBC Micro, Amiga 500 and Atari ST computers, with the keyboard integrated in the base unit.

Unlike binary executables, the same script can be used on all computers that have software to interpret the script.

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 the two previous classes which are universal computers, this class is universal and Turing-complete in its abstract representation.

Unlike some other desktop computers such as the HP 9830, it had a CRT in a cabinet that also included an integrated computer controlled cassette tape storage unit and keyboard.

Unlike the other computers of its era, the ORDVAC and ILLIAC I were twins and could exchange programs with each other.

Unlike third generation minicomputers, which were essentially scaled down versions of mainframe computers, the fourth generation's origins are fundamentally different.

Unlike later portable computers from Apple and other manufacturers, the battery is charged in series with the supply of power to the computer.

Unlike CDs, DVDs do contain data formatted in files for use in computers.

Unlike the NES, the SG-1000 initially had very little to differentiate itself from earlier consoles such as the ColecoVision and contemporary computers such as the MSX.

Unlike computers, librarians develop a rapport with their patrons, enabling them to cater searches to the needs and search style they already expect from the patron.

* Unlike similar " bare circuit card " trainer / experimenter computers of the day, the ELF II could be easily expanded thanks to its built-in bus.

Unlike a typical restaurant, where orders are taken by a waiter at a table, orders are taken by greeters using computers at the entrance.