When Nintendo revived the industry, they signed up software development companies to create NES games under a strict license agreement which imposed serious restrictions on what they were allowed to do.

When the original digital signature generating software was turned over to the Atari community, development of new Atari 7800 titles began.

When a customer bought a minicomputer, at that time the smallest computer on the market, the computer did not come with Pre-installed software, but needed to be installed by engineers employed by the OEM.

When metadata is not present in a distribution, the PAUSE's software will usually try to analyze the code in the distribution to look for the same information ; this is not necessarily very reliable.

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 microcomputers rarely had expensive disk drives of any kind, the need to have software to manage such devices ( the disks ) carried much status.

When faced with a new circuit, the software first tries to find a steady state solution, that is, one where all nodes conform to Kirchhoff's Current Law and the voltages across and through each element of the circuit conform to the voltage / current equations governing that element.

When he asked Gerry Davis what legal options were available, Davis told him that intellectual property law for software was not clear enough to sue.

When floating point operations needed to be performed they were still performed, but not in hardware ; instead the operations were usually facilitated by transparent software emulation.

When deciding to use lossy conversion without keeping the original, one should remember that format conversion may be needed in the future to achieve compatibility with software or devices ( format shifting ), or to avoid paying patent royalties for decoding or distribution of compressed files.

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 Diary of a Camper was created, no software tools existed to edit demo files into films.

When DEC cancelled the Jupiter project in 1983, Systems Concepts hoped to sell their machine to customers with a software investment in PDP-10s.

When Netscape Navigator was released as open source software, Mozilla was the name of the development project and community, along with the project's first product, the Mozilla Application Suite ( later renamed SeaMonkey ).

When users visit a website ( using " user agent " software such as a web browser ), a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the web server.

When an electronic device causes an interrupt, the intermediate results ( registers ) have to be saved before the software responsible for handling the interrupt can run.

When a language is used to give commands to a software application ( such as a shell ) it is called a scripting language.

When a user types in a password on such a system, the password handling software runs through a cryptographic hash algorithm, and if the hash value generated from the user's entry matches the hash stored in the password database, the user is permitted access.

When the software in question uses object-oriented principles, RPC is called remote invocation or remote method invocation.

When creating software, code alone is insufficient.

When the public key is present on one side and the matching private key is present on another side, typing in the password is no longer required ( some software like MPI stack may need this password-less access to run properly ).

When Nintendo revealed the Nintendo GameCube on August 24, 2000, the day before Nintendo's SpaceWorld 2000 exposition, a software demonstration showed a realistically styled real-time duel between Ganondorf and Link.

When used across the network, bandwidth and latency can both be significant issues in the usability of certain software models.

When software rescales an image ( the same process that creates the thumbnail shown in the lower image ) it, in effect, runs the image through a low-pass filter first and then downsamples the image to result in a smaller image that does not exhibit the moiré pattern.

* When making calls to a supplier, a software module should not violate the supplier's preconditions.

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 one station is finished with a car, it passes it on to the next.

When the serving side loses a rally, the serve immediately passes to their opponent ( s ) ( this differs from the old system where sometimes the serve passes to the doubles partner for what is known as a " second serve ").

When a funeral procession passes by the two girls and Laura begins singing a hymn, Carmilla bursts out in rage and scolds Laura for singing a Christian song.

When a medical doctor passes the examinations which enable them to become a member of one or more of the Royal Surgical Colleges and become " MRCS ", it is customary for them to drop the " Doctor " prefix and take up " Miss ", " Mister ", or and so on.

When a single photon is sent through an interferometer, it passes through both paths, interfering with itself, as waves do, yet is detected by a photomultiplier or other sensitive detector only once.

* When the key is released, the jack falls back down under its own weight, and the plectrum passes back under the string.

' When you say such you do not mean that the stone itself is Caesar, but rather, the name and honor you ascribe to the statue passes over to the original, the archetype, Caesar himself.

When the blade of an ice skate passes over the ice, the ice undergoes two kinds of changes in its physical state and a change in temperature due to kinetic friction and the heat of melting.

When knitting, some knitters enclose their balls in jars to keep them clean and untangled with other yarns ; the free yarn passes through a small hole in the jar-lid.

When the number of particles in one excited state exceeds the number of particles in some lower-energy state, population inversion is achieved and the amount of stimulated emission due to light that passes through is larger than the amount of absorption.

When no voltage is applied to a TN liquid crystal cell, polarized light passes through the 90-degrees twisted LC layer.

When a player passes, they can no longer bid.

When a beam of white light passes from air into a material having an index of refraction that varies with frequency, a phenomenon known as dispersion occurs, in which different coloured components of the white light are refracted at different angles, i. e., they bend by different amounts at the interface, so that they become separated.

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

When light of the appropriate frequency passes through the inverted medium, the photons stimulate the excited atoms to emit additional photons of the same frequency, phase, and direction, resulting in an amplification of the input intensity.

When Louise goes below deck momentarily, a large, strange cloud on the horizon passes over the craft, leaving a reflective mist on Scott's bare skin.

When this occurs the wing deflects the airflow downwards, " turning " the air as it passes the wing.

When a current passes through the galvanometer coil, a second magnetic field B perpendicular to the coil is created, of strength:

When the PDU passes over the interface from the layer that constructed it to the layer that merely delivers it ( and therefore does not understand its internal structure ), it becomes a service data unit to that layer.

When a signal passes through a non-ideal, non-linear device, additional content is added at the harmonics of the original frequencies.

When the racing car passes the start / finish line the lap time and the racing position is shown on the score board.

When Forney ’ s sister passes away due to alcoholism and he does not appear to be at the funeral, Novalee finds him in a hotel and comforts him.

When Mercury passes in front of the Sun, it is a transit of Mercury, and when Venus passes in front of the Sun, it is a transit of Venus.