Unlike the NES or Sega Master System, there were few add-on peripherals for the 7800, though its backwards compatibility feature allowed it to be compatible with most Atari 2600 peripherals.

A Single Board Computer meeting the PICMG 1. 3 specification and compatible with a PICMG 1. 3 backplane is referred to as a System Host Board.

In IBM PC compatible computers, the Basic Input / Output System ( BIOS ), also known as the system BIOS or ROM BIOS (), is a de facto standard defining a firmware interface.

Even though each 1541 had its own on board disk controller and disk operating system, it was not possible for a user to command two 1541 drives to copy a disk ( one drive reading and the other writing ) as with older dual drives like the 4040 and 8050 that were often found with the PET computer, and which the 1541 was backward compatible to ( it could read 4040 disks but not write to them since its internal Operating System was essentially the same ).

The game is compatible with the D & D 4th Edition rules and the System Reference Document, but is not considered a separate D & D setting.

The System / 360 was a single series of compatible models for both commercial and scientific use.

Octo Barnett and Neil Pappalardo were also involved with MGH's planning for a Hospital Information System, obtained a backward compatible PDP-9, and began using MUMPS in the admissions cycle and laboratory test reporting.

In this way, microprogramming enabled IBM to design many System / 360 models with substantially different hardware and spanning a wide range of cost and performance, while making them all architecturally compatible.

Recent studies have shown that the formation of the Oort cloud is broadly compatible with the hypothesis that the Solar System formed as part of an embedded cluster of 200 – 400 stars.

The S / 360 ( excepting the 360 / 20 ) was replaced by the compatible System / 370 range in 1970 and 360 / 20 users were targeted to move to the IBM System / 3.

) Later compatible IBM systems include the 3090, the ES / 9000 family, 9672 ( System / 390 family ), the zSeries, System z9, System z10 and IBM zEnterprise System.

Computers that were mostly identical or compatible in terms of the machine code or architecture of the System / 360 included Amdahl's 470 family ( and its successors ), Hitachi mainframes, the UNIVAC 9200 / 9300 / 9400 series, Fujitsu as the Facom, the RCA Spectra 70 series, and

System Industries, a third-party provider of DEC compatible equipment, used a 68B09E processor running OS9 in its QIC ( quarter inch cartridge ) tape backup controllers in VAX installations.

The confusion that resulted from IBM offering three overlapping product lines that weren't compatible with each other along with the sluggish performance of System / 38 significantly impacted IBM's sales.

AIX programs are binary compatible with OS / 400 when using OS / 400's PASE ( Portable Applications System Environment ).

Hercules is a computer emulator which allows software designed for IBM mainframe computers ( System / 370, System / 390, and zSeries / System z ) and for plug compatible mainframes ( such as Amdahl machines ) to run on other types of computer hardware, notably on low-cost personal computers.

The system is designed to be largely compatible with the United Nations Statistical Office's International Standard Industrial Classification System ( ISIC ).

The project produced interesting computer architecture and technology, but it was not compatible with IBM's hugely successful System / 360 line of computers.

Originally released for the IBM 6150 RISC workstation, AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS / 6000 series and later IBM POWER and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System / 370 mainframes, PS / 2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server.

* A very High resolution monochrome video card with blitter and hardware text line and arc drawing capability, was designed for CAD applications, based on the NEC µPD7220 chip designed for graphic terminals, but was also used by some personal computers like the DEC Rainbow, and notably also for the Tulip System I.

Actual working Atari Video System X machines, whose hardware is 100 % identical to the Atari 5200 do exist, but are extremely rare.

Atari Corp .' s later XE Games System revisited the idea of a console based on the 400 / 800 hardware.

Puzzle Bobble was originally released in Japan only in June 1994 by Taito Corporation, running on Taito's B System hardware ( with the preliminary title " Bubble Buster ").

The term BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP / M operating system in 1975, describing the machine-specific part of CP / M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware ( a CP / M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM ).

The computer industry is made up of all of the businesses involved in developing computer software, designing computer hardware and computer networking infrastructures, the manufacture of computer components and the provision of information technology services including System Administration and Maintenance.

The Supreme Court let a 9th circuit decision stand, and Data General was eventually forced into licensing the Operating System software because it was ruled that restricting the license to only DG hardware was an illegal tying arrangement.

System software is computer software designed to operate the computer hardware, to provide basic functionality, and to provide a platform for running application software.

System software is responsible for managing a variety of independent hardware components, so that they can work together harmoniously.

* Computer Graphics Interface, the low-level interface between the Graphical Kernel System ( GKS ) and the hardware.

Mature versions of the Commodore, SWTPC, Atari and Apple home computer systems all featured a disk operating system ( actually called ' DOS ' in the case of the Commodore 64 ( CBM DOS ), Atari 800 ( Atari DOS ), and Apple II machines ( Apple DOS )), as did ( at the other end of the hardware spectrum, and much earlier ) IBM's System / 360, 370 and ( later ) 390 series of mainframes ( e. g., DOS / 360: Disk Operating System / 360 and DOS / VSE: Disk Operating System / Virtual Storage Extended ).

The System / 360 was also the first computer in wide use to include dedicated hardware provisions for the use of operating systems.

There are software-based emulators for the System / 370, System / 390, and System z hardware, including FLEX-ES and the freely available Hercules emulator which runs under Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

The Open System Interconnection ( OSI ) reference model was developed under the auspices of the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) and provides a rigorous description for layering protocol functions from the underlying hardware to the software interface concepts in user applications.

ISO 9660, also referred to as CDFS ( Compact Disc File System ) by some hardware and software providers, is a file system standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) for optical disc media.

Some systems use dedicated hardware to reduce the load on the host CPU, as with Symbolic Sound Corporation's Kyma System, and the Creamware / Sonic Core Pulsar / SCOPE systems, which used several DSP chips hosted on a PCI card to power an entire studio's worth of instruments, effects, and mixers.

The IBM System / 360 has a 32-bit architecture with 16 general-purpose registers, but most of the System / 360 implementations actually use hardware that implemented a much simpler underlying microarchitecture ; for example, the System / 360 Model 30 had 8-bit data paths to the arithmetic logic unit ( ALU ) and main memory and implemented the general-purpose registers in a special unit of higher-speed core memory, and the System / 360 Model 40 had 8-bit data paths to the ALU and 16-bit data paths to main memory and also implemented the general-purpose registers in a special unit of higher-speed core memory.

Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

Since 1990, AIX has served as the primary operating system for the RS / 6000 series ( later renamed IBM eServer pSeries, then IBM System p, and now IBM Power Systems ).

Also, general relativity has passed stringent tests on the scale of the Solar System and binary stars while extrapolation to cosmological scales has been validated by the empirical successes of various aspects of the Big Bang theory.

Currently scoring blows in amateur boxing are subjectively counted by ringside judges, but the Australian Institute for Sport has demonstrated a prototype of an Automated Boxing Scoring System, which introduces scoring objectivity, improves safety, and arguably makes the sport more interesting to spectators.

If that business is a subsidiary which has considerably more independence then the title might be known as Chairman and CEO ( for example, Philip I. Kent of Turner Broadcasting System in Time Warner ).

However, this problem has been alleviated somewhat by the development of the TransMilenio Bus Rapid System and the restriction of vehicles through a daily, rotating ban on private cars depending on plate numbers.

The use of color codes has been extended to abstractions, such as the Homeland Security Advisory System color code in the United States.

* Colonization of Ceres, has been proposed as one possible target for human colonization in the inner Solar System

The series is set in the year 2071, when the entire Solar System has been made accessible through reliable hyperspace gates.

Mars has become the new central hub of human civilization, and interplanetary crime syndicates exert influence over the government and the Inter-Solar System Police ( ISSP ), limiting their effectiveness in dealing with crime.

Since the early 1960s, it has been known that volcanism has occurred on other planets and moons in the Solar System.

Mars has the largest volcano in the Solar System called Olympus Mons, which is more than three times the height of Mount Everest, with a diameter of 520 km ( 323 miles ).

In 2001 the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System recommended to the European Parliament that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy, because economic espionage with ECHELON has been conducted by the US intelligence agences.

Alien life, such as bacteria, has been hypothesized to exist in the Solar System and throughout the universe.

Thermodynamic entropy has the dimension of energy divided by temperature, which has a unit of joules per kelvin ( J / K ) in the International System of Units.

In time, projects were devised in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. The modern Erie Canal has 34 locks, which are painted with the blue and gold colors of the New York State Canal System.

Over time, the roles and responsibilities of the Federal Reserve System have expanded and its structure has evolved.

The Federal Reserve System has both private and public components, and was designed to serve the interests of both the general public and private bankers.