But beyond Massachusetts, there's Maine, which has put in noncompatible technology.

It was buried in a series of noncompatible files, like a gemstone in rubble.

They're deliberately designed to be noncompatible.

Mainly produces noncompatible girder-based elements, but some sets feature Lego-compatible studs.

RCA engineers stress the fact that this compatibility was achieved at only a negligible compromise in picture quality in comparison with noncompatible systems.

Noncompatible Any components that rely on the performance or characteristic(s) of other components for which no compatibility has been stated are considered to be noncompatible.

This spares local TV stations the nightmare of direct competition from new stations broadcasting noncompatible, over-the-air HDTV.

In turning over LAN Manager to Microsoft, 3Com seeks to end the customer confusion that had arisen from the two companies offering similar but noncompatible products.

An installation involving a noncompatible, certified component is allowed only when a compatible component is not commercially available and in conjunction with an approved variance (21 CFR 1010.4).

"What we had here was a noncompatible use," said Thomas M. Creamer, chief of the operations division of the New York District of the Corps of Engineers.

In pressurized compartments around the walls of a vast floating amphitheater were the noncompatible life forms--swimmers, oozers, mass-mind multiunit forms, breathers of methane or other Class M-lethal atmospheres.

Organic farmers welcome the scrutiny needed to maintain consumer confidence, but this confidence will be undermined if the standards include noncompatible practices like the use of genetically engineered crops, irradiation and application of sewage sludge.

If none of the manufacturers state compatibility, either by specific model designation or a description of pertinent physical characteristics, then the components are described as noncompatible and, if installed, should be so stated on the assembler's forms.

Mr. McNealy said that Sun already competed with Japanese and Taiwanese computers and that if it lost a sale to them, the customer had committed to a noncompatible system and was lost forever.

That is, somewhere up in Albany or perhaps locally, some enchanter has lulled some bureaucrat into believing that the answer for increased airport income would be a new noncompatible business generating bushels of new leasing and sales-tax receipts.

Commodore's Amiga computers, whose sales have been somewhat disappointing, in part because the company went its own way as a noncompatible hardware and software setup, have nonetheless attracted a cult following among video producers and graphics designers, who prize the Amiga's ability with music and graphics.

The new system has another important effect: it will put an end to a long-running feud between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had developed two competing, noncompatible technologies to obtain ballistic information on guns, bullets and shell casings.