When operating in “ 2600 ” mode to play Atari 2600 titles, the 7800 uses a Television Interface Adapter ( TIA ) chip to generate graphics and sound.

When this hydrological link is not present, the Black Sea is a lake, operating independent of the global ocean system.

When the Apple II, PET 2001 and TRS-80 were all released in 1977, all three had BASIC as their primary programming language and operating environment.

When Data General introduced the Data General Nova, a company called Digidyne wanted to use its RDOS operating system on its own hardware clone.

When a program needs memory, it requests it from the operating system.

When the cache client ( a CPU, web browser, operating system ) needs to access a datum presumed to exist in the backing store, it first checks the cache.

When a transition between user mode and kernel mode is required in an operating system, a context switch is not necessary ; a mode transition is not by itself a context switch.

When the code is executed, the platform-specific VES will compile the CIL to the machine language according to the specific hardware and operating system.

When an application makes a request that requires a domain name lookup, such programs send a resolution request to the DNS resolver in the local operating system, which in turn handles the communications required.

Though attractive in many cases, a general-purpose DBMS is not always the optimal solution: When certain applications are pervasive with many operating instances, each with many users, a general-purpose DBMS may introduce unnecessary overhead and too large " footprint " ( too large amount of unnecessary, unutilized software code ).

When the 4GL was first introduced, a disparate mix of hardware and operating systems mandated custom application development support that was specific to the system in order to ensure sales.

Le Laboratoire des Hallucinations, by André de Lorde: When a doctor finds his wife's lover in his operating room, he performs a graphic brain surgery rendering the adulterer a hallucinating semi-zombie.

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

When privacy extensions are enabled, the operating system generates ephemeral IP addresses by concatenating a randomly generated host identifier with the assigned network prefix.

When free and open source Unix-like operating systems such as GNU / Linux and 386BSD became available in the early 1990s many volunteer software developers abandoned MINIX in favor of these.

When Mach was first being seriously used in the 2. x versions, performance was slower than traditional monolithic operating systems, perhaps as much as 25 %.

When Mach 3 attempted to move most of the operating system into user-space, the overhead became higher still: benchmarks between Mach and Ultrix on a MIPS R3000 showed a performance hit as great as 67 % on some workloads.

When Richard Stallman and the GNU team were implementing POSIX for the GNU operating system, they objected to this on the grounds that most people think in terms of 1024 byte ( or 1 KiB ) blocks.

When the critical section is longer than a few source code lines or involves lengthy looping, an embedded / real-time algorithm must resort to using mechanisms identical or similar to those available on general-purpose operating systems, such as semaphores and OS-supervised interprocess messaging.

When the original IBM-PC was created in 1980, there were three leading competing operating systems: PC-DOS, CP / M-86, and UCSD p-System, while Xenix was added in 1983-1984.

When a reference is made to a page by the hardware, if the page table entry for the page indicates that it is not currently in real memory, the hardware raises a page fault exception, invoking the paging supervisor component of the operating system.

When an operating system with a native windowing system hosts X in addition, the X system can either use its own normal desktop in a separate host window or it can run rootless, meaning the X desktop is hidden and the host windowing environment manages the geometry and appearance of the hosted X windows within the host screen.

When the Macedonian army approaches Thracian Chersonese ( the Gallipoli Peninsula ), an Athenian general named Diopeithes ravages this district of Thrace, thus inciting Philip's rage for operating too near one of his towns in the Chersonese.

When operating away from planetary magnetospheres, a magnetic sail would force the positively charged protons of the solar wind to curve as they passed through the magnetic field.

When compared with more modern operating systems.

When we say that a mythological mode of thought must be completely abandoned, we mean it must be abandoned as the sole or proper means for presenting the Christian understanding of existence.

When in “ 7800 ” mode ( signified by the appearance of the full screen Atari logo ), the graphics are generated entirely by the MARIA graphics processing unit, all system RAM is available and game data is accessed in larger 48K blocks.

When used together with the C128, it implements faster burst mode access than the Commodore 1571 5¼ " drive.

When in an aggressive mode, a chimp will swagger bipedally, hunched over and arms waving, in an attempt to exaggerate its size.

When playing in CD-audio mode, songs absent from CD would be replaced by some existing CD tracks.

When switched into 6309 Native Mode ( as opposed to the default 6809-compatible mode ) many key instructions will complete in fewer clock cycles.

When Intel designed the 286, it was not designed to be able to multitask real-mode applications ; real mode was intended to be a simple way for a bootstrap loader to prepare the system and then switch to protected mode.

When filling mode is on, it sets every pixel until filling mode is turned off or the line ends.

When players die in multiplayer mode, they can immediately respawn but lose any items that were collected.

When the Scroll Lock mode was on, the arrow keys would scroll the contents of a text window instead of moving the cursor.

When a cargo is carried in more than one mode, it is intermodal or co-modal.

When booting a Cr-48 from developer mode, when the screen displays the " sad laptop " image, pressing xyzzy produces a joke BSOD screen.

When used in zero bias or photovoltaic mode, the flow of photocurrent out of the device is restricted and a voltage builds up.

When a cell switches to the biofilm mode of growth, it undergoes a phenotypic shift in behavior in which large suites of genes are differentially regulated.

When the 386 was introduced, again a protected mode OS could be written for it.

When a jackpot does not result in a kakuhen combination, the pachinko machine will enter into mode, with a much larger number of spins than kakuhen.

( In order not to interpret +++ which may be a part of data as the escape sequence the sender stops communication for one second before and after the +++). When the modem encounters this in a stream of data, it switches from its normal mode of operation which simply sends any characters to the phone, to a command mode in which the following data is assumed to be a part of the command language.

When moving from one mode to the other the state of the machine is lost from memory, and requires a sometimes lengthy " boot " process to return the machine to the " on " state.