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 a PC dies, it is often possible for the dead character to be resurrected through magic, although some penalties may be imposed as a result.

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 gubernatorial campaign starts, Caldwell is expected to become a campaign coordinator for Byrd.

When the ventricle starts contracting, deoxygenated blood is pumped through the pulmonary artery to the lungs.

When 301 of the most advanced model, the " Launch Arco ," are built, an " exodus sequence " starts in which all Launch Arcos blast into space.

When the holder of the intellectual property discards all existing continuity and starts from scratch it is known as rebooting.

When a machine starts sending out too many scans, it is a sign that it has been infected, allowing administrators to take it off line and check it for malware.

When dialogue titles came to be always cut into a scene just after a character starts speaking, and then left with a cut to the character just before they finish speaking, then one had something that was effectively the equivalent of a present-day sound film.

When Montag reads Dover Beach to them, Mrs. Phelps starts crying over how hollow her life is while Mrs. Bowles chastises Montag for reading a " filthy " poem.

When the piston moves further down and the cylinder doesn't have anymore gases, fuel mixture starts to flow to the combustion chamber and the second process of fuel compression starts.

When a nucleus is added to an egg during somatic cell nuclear transfer, the egg starts dividing in minutes, as compared to the days or months it takes for reprogramming during embryonic development.

When a force ( push or pull ) is applied to an object, that object starts to move.

When applied, the exposure to oxygen in the air starts a process that crosslinks and polymerizes the binder component.

When order starts to return to the Confederation and Joshua Calvert is questioned as to why he moved the human race to such an isolated space he justified himself by saying that this will allow humanity to avert another " reality dysfunction " as this isolation will force itself to look inwards and re-evaluate itself as a whole.

When the players are set in a formation, the quarterback starts the play by calling out a code word, a number, or a combination of the two.

When a node first starts, it only knows of its immediate neighbours, and the direct cost involved in reaching them.

When the male springbok is showing off his strength to attract a mate, or to ward off predators, he starts off in a stiff-legged trot, jumping up into the air with an arched back every few paces and lifting the flap along his back.

When a person reads it's usually in a context that has been previously prepared, but when a person uses spontaneous speech, it is difficult to recognize the speech because of the disfluences ( like " uh " and " um ", false starts, incomplete sentences, stuttering, coughing, and laughter ) and limited vocabulary.

On the Indigo Girls album 1200 Curfews ( Disc 2 ) Amy Ray starts the song " Land of Cannaan " ( which originally was on their 1987 Strange Fire album ) by saying " When I first wrote this song it was a ballad, and then I heard The Replacements, and it wasn't any more.

When hippos become overpopulated, or when a habitat starts to shrink, bulls will sometimes attempt to kill infants, but this behavior is not common under normal conditions.

When some of the rotors reverse direction, the flagella unwind and the cell starts " tumbling ".

The book's title comes from the ballad " Mary Ambree ", which starts, " When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt ".

When the ice is suitable the tour is announced, and starts within 48 hours.

When the cord reaches its natural length the jumper either starts to slow down or keeps accelerating depending upon the speed of descent.

When the parser starts, the stack already contains two symbols: