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 one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

When it was over, eight of his company were still alive and all eight were wounded.

When we got there, Trig and the Negro were quarreling over possession of a gold crucifix around the neck of a wounded Filipino.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

When Costaggini had used up all the sketches thirty-six feet of empty frieze were left over.

When driving rain or mist socked in one valley, Fogg would chandelle up and over to reverse course and try another one, ranging from the Ottauquechee up to Danville in search of safe passage through the mountain passes.

When Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov took it over in 1957 from Georgi Zaroubin, he made a determined effort to change this idea.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.

When Dr. W. A. Swim celebrated his 75th birthday at the Wilshire Country Club, guests came by chartered plane from all over the country.

When a man invests a block of his years at a university without gaining the coveted promotion, not only is he faced with the problem of starting over but there is also a certain depreciation in the market value of his services.

When the inning was over he cursed the Anniston catcher all the way into the dugout.

When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.

However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.

When the anchor lands on the bottom, it will generally fall over with the arms parallel to the seabed.

When a character in Aristophanes ' Knights says, " I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your head — out of a ladle ," the homely and realistic ladle brings the ineffable moment to ground with a thump.

When the Gothic campaign ended in Roman victory at the Battle of Naissus in September, Gallienus ' successor Claudius II Gothicus turned north to deal with the Alemanni, who were swarming over all Italy north of the Po River.

When the campaigns in Africa were over, Afonso V found new grounds for battle in the Iberian Peninsula.

" When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make?

When it came to penal sanctions, no officeholder could impose a fine over fifty drachmas.

When the wake-up call was issued to the Apollo 16 crew for their final day in space by capsule communicator Tony England, the spacecraft was about out from Earth, traveling just over.

When large numbers of delayed signals are mixed over several seconds, the resulting sound has the effect of being presented in a large room, and it is more commonly called reverberation or reverb for short.