When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware.

When Compaq introduced the first PC based on Intel's new 80386 microprocessor, the Compaq Deskpro 386, in 1986, it marked the first CPU change to the PC platform that was not initiated by IBM.

When the IBM PC was introduced, IBM sold its operating system as an unbundled ( but necessary ) option.

When the PC was introduced in 1981, it was designated as the IBM 5150, putting it in the " 5100 " series, though its architecture was not directly descended from the IBM 5100.

When a key is pressed, the foil tightly clings to the surface of the PC board, forming a daisy chain of two capacitors between contact pads and itself separated with thin soldermask, and thus " shorting " the contact pads with an easily detectable drop of capacitive reactance between them.

When attempting to increase processing power, Apple was hampered by the overheating problems of the 68040 ; this resulted in the 100-series PowerBook being stuck with the aging 68030 which could not compete with newer-generation Intel 80486-based PC laptops introduced in 1994.

When the Gold card was finally released, the Sound Blaster series was entrenched as the de-facto PC sound card standard, and priced significantly cheaper than the Adlib Gold.

When Xerox finally entered the PC market with the Xerox 820, they pointedly rejected the Alto design and opted instead for a very conventional model, a CP / M-based machine with the then-standard 80 by 24 character-only monitor and no mouse.

When IBM used the 80286 in their IBM Personal Computer AT, they solved this problem by including a software-settable gate to enable or disable ( force to zero ) the A20 address line, between the A20 pin on the 80286 and the system bus ; this is known as Gate-A20 ( the A20 gate ), and it is still implemented in PC chipsets to this day.

When you enter the disk's password, the disk image is " mounted ", and made available as a new drive letter on your PC.

When the IBM Personal Computer was being developed, DR was asked to supply a version of CP / M written for the Intel 8086 microprocessor as the standard operating system for the PC, which used the code-compatible Intel 8088 chip.

When the IBM PC arrived in late 1981, it came with PC-DOS, which was developed from 86-DOS, which Microsoft acquired for this purpose.

When using a PC, a typical example of a games control system would be the use of a mouse and keyboard combined.

When the PC party held power at the federal level, it never truly embraced Reaganomics and its crusade against " big government " as vociferously as was done in the USA.

When it was launched, the cost of a PCW system was under 25 % of the cost of almost all IBM-compatible PC systems in the UK.

When an emulator was added to provide PC DOS compatibility, the system was renamed to Concurrent DOS, which later became Multiuser DOS.

When IBM contacted other companies to obtain components for the IBM PC, the as-yet unreleased CP / M-86 was its first choice for an operating system because CP / M had the most applications at the time.

When Digital Research founder Gary Kildall examined PC DOS and found that it duplicated CP / M's programming interface, he wanted to sue IBM, which at the time claimed that PC DOS was its own product.

When IBM implemented the parallel interface on the IBM PC, they used the DB25F connector at the PC-end of the interface, creating the now familiar parallel cable with a DB25M at one end and a 36 pin micro ribbon connector at the other.

The same is true for newer processors: When a single-core Intel CPU was 20 % underclocked, the PC ’ s performance was down only 13 % with a 49 % power reduction.

When Mulroney announced his retirement as PC leader and prime minister, Charest was a candidate for the leadership of the party at the 1993 Progressive Conservative leadership convention.

When the game was released, it received consistently high reviews for all versions, 95 % from Amiga Computing for the Amiga version, 96 % from Computer and Video Games for the PC version.

When the proprietor dies, the establishment should become a corporation until it is either acquired by another proprietor or the government decides to drop it.

When he finally dies at the end of the novel, the situation report from the frontline states, " All is Quiet on the Western Front ," symbolizing the cheapness of human life in war.

When a susceptible insect ingests the transgenic crop cultivar expressing the Bt protein, it stops feeding and soon thereafter dies as a result of the Bt toxin binding to its gut wall.

When a man dies, he does not feel the pain of death because he no longer is and he therefore feels nothing.

When his woman dies, he seeks another woman ; to woman he is bound.

When Marlow ’ s helmsman dies, Conrad describes him as “ heavier than any man on earth ,” but after Marlow throws him into the river, he is carried off “ like a wisp of grass ”.

When a person dies, one does not say that the person's life has changed.

When the Prime Minister resigns or dies, the position is to be filled as soon as possible and the new leader will appoint a new Government.

" Actor Jack Nicholson once said, " When Marlon dies, everybody moves up one.

When one of the five Perfect Masters dies, Baba asserted that another God-realized soul among the fifty-six immediately replaces him or her by taking up that office.

When a person who has realized nirvāṇa dies, his death is referred as

When the Old Guard was surrounded and made its last stand at La Belle Alliance, he supposedly shouted in defiance to a call for their honorable surrender: " The Old Guard dies but does not surrender!

When the plant dies, the fixed nitrogen is released, making it available to other plants and this helps to fertilize the soil.

" He had previously been quoted as saying: " When today the Pope dies, you'll get another one tomorrow, because the Church continues.

# To complete one's unfinished sadhana: When an aspirant making spiritual efforts for liberation from maya dies without attaining his or her goal, the jiva gets as a natural cause-effect another human body to complete its sadhana.

When an organism dies, it ceases to take in new carbon-14, and the existing isotope decays with a characteristic half-life ( 5730 years ).

When Mr. Dashwood dies, his estate, Norland Park, passes directly to his only son John, the child of his first wife.

When his woman dies, he seeks another woman ; to woman he is bound.

When the first married individual dies, the trust pays out to the beneficiaries an amount up to the total unified credit.

When he hears that his estranged brother Lyle ( Harry Dean Stanton ) has suffered a stroke, Alvin makes up his mind to go visit him and hopefully make amends before he dies.

When the chief justice dies in office or is otherwise unwilling or unable to serve, the duties of the chief justice temporarily are performed by the most senior sitting associate justice, who serves as Acting Chief Justice until a new chief justice is confirmed.

" When man or woman dies from sickness, the body is left in the cave or rock shelter where the death took place, the body is not washed or dressed or ornamented in any way, but is generally allowed to be in the natural supine position and is covered with leaves and branches.

When the dough is baked, the yeast dies and the air pockets " set ", giving the baked product a soft and spongy texture.

* May 3 – When the Japanese Emperor and the officers are about to leave for the Abstinence-palace at the hour of sunrise, Princess Tōchi suddenly takes ill and dies within the Palace.