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ASW. ASW, a three-letter abbreviation, may refer to:

Alumino silicate wool, a type of mineral wool
Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, former UK trade union
American School of Warsaw, Poland.
Amphibian Species of the World, an online herpetology database hosted by the American Museum of Natural History.
Anti-submarine warfare
Arc System Works, a video game development company
Artificial seawater
Arriva Scotland West, a defunct Scottish bus operator
aSmallWorld, an online social network service
ASW Distillery, a manufacturer of liquor located in Atlanta, Georgia
Aswan International Airport (IATA airport code "ASW"), an airport in Egypt
Asynchronous SpaceWarp, a framerate smoothing technique used on the Oculus Rift

Sports
All-Star Wrestling, a former professional wrestling promotion based in Vancouver, Canada
All Star Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion based in Liverpool, England
Altijd Sterker Worden, a club from Dordrecht, Netherlands that merged into SC Emma
Altijd Sterker Worden, a club from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands under its original name
IBM Airline Control Program. IBM Airline Control Program, or ACP, is a discontinued operating system developed by IBM beginning about 1965. In contrast to previous airline transaction processing systems, the most notable aspect of ACP is that it was designed to run on most models of the IBM System/360 mainframe computer family. This departed from the earlier model in which each airline had a different, machine-specific transaction system.

Overview
Development began with SABRE (Semi-Automatic Business Research Environment), Deltamatic, and PANAMAC.  From these, the Programmed Airline Reservations System (PARS) was developed. In 1969 the control program, ACP, was separated from PARS. PARS kept the functions for processing airline reservations and related data.

In December 1979, ACP became known as ACP/TPF and then just TPF (Transaction Processing Facility). The transaction operating system became more widely implemented by businesses other than the major airlines, such as online credit card processing, hotel and rental car reservations, police emergency response systems, and package delivery systems.

The last "free" release of ACP, 9.2.1, was intended for use in bank card and similar applications. It was shipped on a "mini-reel" which contained a complete ACP system and its libraries for restoration to IBM 3340 disk drives. From that complete system one could easily create derivative works. A hypervisor was included, which allowed OS/370 VS1 or VS2 (SVS or MVS) to be run as a "guest" OS under ACP itself. The end-user documentation, which was shipped with the tape, took almost 60 linear inches of shelf space.

See also IBM Airline Control System (ALCS), a variant of TPF specially designed to provide all the benefits of TPF (very high speed, high volume, high availability transaction processing) but with the advantages such as easier integration into the data center offered by running on a standard IBM operating system platform.

See also
 Timeline of operating systems

References

Further reading

External links
 Official IBM TPF website
 Airline Control Program/Transaction Processing Facility (ACP /TPF) General Information Manual (1979)

20th-century aviation
Airline Control Program
1968 software
Transmeta Efficeon. The Efficeon  (stylized as efficēon) processor is Transmeta's second-generation 256-bit VLIW design released in 2004 which employs a software engine Code Morphing Software (CMS) to convert code written for x86 processors to the native instruction set of the chip. Like its predecessor, the Transmeta Crusoe (a 128-bit VLIW architecture), Efficeon stresses computational efficiency, low power consumption, and a low thermal footprint.

Processor
Efficeon most closely mirrors the feature set of Intel Pentium 4 processors, although, like AMD Opteron processors, it supports a fully integrated memory controller, a HyperTransport IO bus, and the NX bit, or no-execute x86 extension to PAE mode. NX bit support is available starting with CMS version 6.0.4.

Efficeon's computational performance relative to mobile CPUs like the Intel Pentium M is thought to be lower, although little appears to be published about the relative performance of these competing processors.

Efficeon came in two package types: a 783- and a 592-contact ball grid array (BGA). Its power consumption is moderate (with some consuming as little as 3 watts at 1 GHz and 7 watts at 1.5 GHz), so it can be passively cooled.

Two generations of this chip were produced. The first generation (TM8600) was manufactured using a TSMC 0.13 micrometre process and produced at speeds up to 1.2 GHz. The second generation (TM8800 and TM8820) was manufactured using a Fujitsu 90 nm process and produced at speeds ranging from 1 GHz to 1.7 GHz.

Internally, the Efficeon has two arithmetic logic units, two load/store/add units, two execute units, two floating-point/MMX/SSE/SSE2 units, one branch prediction unit, one alias unit, and one control unit. The VLIW core can execute a 256-bit VLIW instruction per cycle, which is called a molecule, and has room to store eight 32-bit instructions (called atoms) per cycle.

The Efficeon has a 128 KB L1 instruction cache, a 64 KB L1 data cache and a 1 MB L2 cache. All caches are on die.

Additionally, the Efficeon CMS (code morphing software) reserves a small portion of main memory (typically 32 MB) for its translation cache of dynamically translated x86 instructions.

Products

 Elitegroup A532 (was also sold as IRu Stilo 1715L, Fudita Smart TM1000)
 Microsoft FlexGo Computer (first generation)
 Orion Multisystem Cluster Workstation
 Sharp Actius MM20, MP30, MP70G
 Sharp Mebius Muramasa PC-MM2, PC-CV50F

References

External links
Transmeta Microprocessor Technology
Efficeon TM8600 Product Sheet
Efficeon TM8300/8600 Product Brief
Efficeon TM8800 Product Sheet

Computer-related introductions in 2004
Embedded microprocessors
Very long instruction word computing
X86 microprocessors
VLIW microprocessors
X86 microarchitectures
RFA Reliant (A131). RFA Reliant (A131) was a helicopter support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. 
She was built in 1977 in Poland, at the Gdańsk Shipyard, as a conventional container ship with roll-on/roll-off capability for loading vehicles and containers for the Harrison Line. She was named Astronomer. She was taken up from the trade in 1982 for service in the Falklands War as an aircraft transport, being fitted with a temporary mid-ships flight deck and hangar forward to carry 13 helicopters.

At the end of 1982 she was chartered by the UK MoD and a more substantial conversion was undertaken, and was fitted with the Arapaho containerized aircraft handling system, a hangar and a flight deck and she was commissioned into the RFA Fleet as RFA Reliant. Her first operational sortie was to the coast of Lebanon in support of the Multinational Force in Lebanon and the British Army units based in Beirut, eventually evacuating the same in February 1984. Upon returning to UK she proceeded to the Falklands for what was expected to be an extended deployment. However, it did not last long as the Arapaho system proved to be unsatisfactory for handling aircraft. She was decommissioned in 1986 and sold back into conventional merchant service.

References

Ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
1976 ships
RFA Engadine (K08). RFA Engadine (K08) was a helicopter support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

The need for Engadine was seen in the mid-1960s as more and more helicopters were deployed from Royal Navy aircraft carriers and surface combatants. The ship was ordered in August 1964, from Henry Robb of Leith, and commissioned in December 1967, replacing . She was the third British ship named HMS Engadine the previous two being a seaplane carrier and an aircraft transport ship. Engadine comes from the Engadin valley in south-east Switzerland, which is represented by the alphorns and edelweiss on her badge.

In 1968 she was designated as one of the PYTHON locations for the dispersal and continuity of government in the event of nuclear war.

Engadine'''s homeport throughout her career was Portland, Dorset. During the 1976 crisis in Lebanon she was deployed as part of contingency planning to evacuate British citizens.

At the Silver Jubilee fleet review in 1977 she followed the royal yacht .

In the Falklands War she was a helicopter support and refuelling ship in San Carlos Water.

By the mid-1980s Engadine was becoming obsolescent so the container ship MV Contender Bezant was bought for conversion, becoming . Engadine'' was decommissioned in 1989 and sold to new owners in Greece.  She arrived at Piraeus on 18 February 1990 after being bought by Greek owners for a new service which never materialised and the ship was laid up, name unchanged.  She was sold for scrap and arrived at Alang for demolition on 7 May 1996 which commenced on 23 September 1996.

References

Bibliography

External links

1966 ships
Falklands War naval ships of the United Kingdom
Ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Ships built in Leith
RFA Eddybay. RFA Eddybay (A107) was an Eddy-class coastal tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. As with others of the class the ship had a short career and was stationed at Gibraltar for much of that time as a petrol carrier, spending three years at the colony in total.

References
 Eddy-Class Coastal Tankers
 Historical RFA

Eddy-class coastal tankers
1951 ships
Ships built in Dundee
RFA Eddyreef. RFA Eddyreef (A202) was an Eddy-class coastal tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Built by the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee, the ship was launched on 28 May 1953, and entered service on 23 October 1953.

Eddyreef was laid up in 1958, and departed from Devonport, Plymouth, in tow for demolition at Willebroek, Belgium, in March 1964.

References

Eddy-class coastal tankers
1953 ships
Ships built in Dundee
RFA Eddyfirth. RFA Eddyfirth (A261) was an  of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom.

Construction and design
Eddyfirth was launched at Lobnitz & Co.'s Renfrew shipyard on 10 September 1953 and completed on 10 February 1954. The ship had an overall length of  and a length between perpendiculars of . Beam was  and draft . The ship displaced  light and  full load, with a capacity of 1650 tons of oil. Two oil fired boilers fed a triple-expansion steam engine rated at  and drove a single propeller shaft, giving a speed of .

Service history
Initially, Eddyfirth was based in Malta as support for the Motor Minesweeping Flotilla. In 1966 she returned to United Kingdom coastal waters, reclassified as a harbour oiler. Withdrawn from service in 1981, she was scrapped in Seville in March 1982.

References

Bibliography

Eddy-class coastal tankers
1953 ships
Ships built on the River Clyde
RFA Wave Master. RFA Wave Master (A193) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

She was built as Empire Salisbury by Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd, and transferred to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in 1946. She was laid up at Singapore on 23 September 1962, and scrapped at Jurong in May 1963.

References

Wave-class oilers
Tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Ministry of War Transport ships
World War II merchant ships of the United Kingdom
1944 ships
RFA Olna (A216). RFA Olna (A216) was one of two ships built for Shell. She was originally named Hyalina and taken up for Fleet Service soon after building.

She was taken into service as a fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). The ship was built for service with the British Pacific Fleet against Japan, and was commissioned into the Royal Navy for that purpose. However, after the Second World War the ship was quickly transferred to the RFA, making the move in 1946. Olna was crucial to the development of replenishment at sea doctrines for the British fleet, and saw service up until 1966.

In 1955 when serving with the Mediterranean fleet, Olna was used in the making of the film Battle of the River Plate to depict the German supply ship .

References
 RFA Olna at RFA Ships

Tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
1944 ships
RFA Salvictor. RFA Salvictor (A500) was a salvage vessel of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Salvictor was built by Wm. Simons & Co. Ltd. of Renfrew, launched on 11 March 1944, and commissioned on 31 March 1944. Decommissioned in 1970, the ship was handed over to the breakers at Briton Ferry on 19 June 1970.

King Salvor-class salvage vessels
Ships built on the River Clyde
1944 ships
RFA Broomdale. RFA Broomdale (A168) was a Dale-class fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She spent much of her career in the Indian Ocean and Far East.

Construction and design
The ship was ordered from the British Tanker Company of London from Harland & Wolff and was laid down on 29 December 1936 with Yard number 975. She was one of six tankers purchased during construction by the British Government to allow replacement of worn out ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was launched as Broomdale on 2 September 1937, and was completed on 3 November 1937, entering service the same day.

Broomdale was  long overall and  between perpendiculars, with a beam of  and a draught of . She was powered by Doxford diesel engines rated at , giving a speed of . Broomdale displaced , with a deadweight tonnage of . The ship had a Gross register tonnage of 8334 tons and a Net register tonnage of 4967 tons. The ship had a complement of 40.

Service 
While undergoing sea trials at Glasgow on 4 February 1938, Broomdale was involved in a collision with the New Zealand Shipping Company's cargo passenger ship . Broomdale underwent repairs at Greenock. She spent the first year of the war operating between bases in Scotland and Norway, on 16 May 1940 she was attacked by four dive bombers and suffered minor damage from two near misses. Towards the end of 1940 she was moved to operations in the South Atlantic based at Port Stanley.

In April 1942 she was assigned to the British Eastern Fleet at Ceylon. She took part in Operation Stab and spent the next three years fuelling and escorting convoys across the Indian Ocean. On 14 April 1944 she sustained minor damage from the explosion of the ammunition ship , and then in August was accidentally torpedoed by the submarine , rupturing two tanks and killing one.

After a brief trip back to the UK and the end of hostilities she was sent to the Far East, visiting Shanghai, Tokyo, Yokohama and Hong Kong.

She was refitted in 1947 and continued service across the world until sold in November 1959 and broken up two months later.

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Dale-class oilers
Tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
1937 ships
Ships built in Govan
Ships built by Harland and Wolff
RFA Eddyness. RFA Eddyness (A295) was an Eddy-class coastal tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom, built by the Blyth Shipbuilding Company, in Blyth, Northumberland, England and launched in 1953. She was taken out of service at the beginning of 1963 and was eventually broken up at Valencia, Spain, in 1970.

References

Citations

Bibliography 
 

Eddy-class coastal tankers
1953 ships
Ships built on the River Blyth
S6G reactor. The S6G reactor is a naval reactor used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on  attack submarines.  The S6G designation stands for:

 S = Submarine platform
 6 = Sixth generation core designed by the contractor
 G = General Electric was the contracted designer

Design 
This nuclear reactor was designed by General Electric for use on the  attack submarines. The S6G reactor plant consists of the reactor coolant, steam generation, and other support systems that supply steam to the engine room. The S6G is a 165 megawatt (MW) reactor driving two 26 MW steam turbines.

The Los Angeles-class engine room also contains the steam turbines that generate electricity and drive the propeller shaft.  While exact specifications are classified, the S6G reactor can propel a Los Angeles-class submarine at over  when surfaced and over  while submerged.

Design and operational support for the S6G is provided by Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL).  The S6G reactor plant was originally designed to use the D1G-2 core, similar to the D2G reactor used on the  guided missile cruiser.  All Los Angeles-class submarines from  on were built with a D2W core. The D1G-2 cores are being replaced with D2W cores when the boats are refueled.

References 

United States naval reactors
ChipTest. ChipTest was a 1985 chess playing computer built by Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman and Murray Campbell at Carnegie Mellon University. It is the predecessor of Deep Thought which in turn evolved into Deep Blue.

History
ChipTest was based on a special VLSI-technology move generator chip developed by Hsu. ChipTest was controlled by a Sun-3/160 workstation and capable of searching approximately 50,000 moves per second. Hsu and Anantharaman entered ChipTest in the 1986 North American Computer Chess Championship, and it was only partially tested when the tournament began. It lost its first two rounds, but finished with an even score. 

In August 1987 ChipTest was overhauled and renamed ChipTest-M, M standing for microcode. The new version had eliminated ChipTest's bugs and was ten times faster, searching 500,000 moves per second and running on a Sun-4 workstation. ChipTest-M won the North American Computer Chess Championship in 1987 with a 4–0 sweep. 

ChipTest was invited to play in the 1987 American Open, but the team did not enter due to an objection by the HiTech team, also from Carnegie Mellon University. HiTech and ChipTest shared some code, and Hitech was already playing in the tournament. The two teams became rivals.

Designing and implementing ChipTest revealed many possibilities for improvement, so the designers started on a new machine.  Deep Thought 0.01 was created in May 1988 and the version 0.02 in November the same year. This new version had two customized VLSI chess processors and it was able to search 720,000 moves per second. With the "0.02" dropped from its name, Deep Thought won the World Computer Chess Championship with a perfect 5–0 score in 1989.

See also 
 Computer chess
 Deep Thought, the second in the line of chess computers developed by Feng-hsiung Hsu
 Deep Blue (chess computer), another chess computer developed by Feng-hsiung Hsu, being the first computer to win a chess match against the world champion

References

External links 
The making of Deep Blue, overview, IBM Research

Chess computers
One-of-a-kind computers
Carnegie Mellon University
Pulse (signal processing). A pulse in signal processing is a rapid, transient change in the amplitude of a signal from a baseline value to a higher or lower value, followed by a rapid return to the baseline value.

Pulse shapes
Pulse shapes can arise out of a process called pulse-shaping.  Optimum pulse shape depends on the application.

Rectangular pulse
These can be found in pulse waves, square waves, boxcar functions, and rectangular functions. In digital signals the up and down transitions between high and low levels are called the rising edge and the falling edge.  In digital systems the detection of these sides or action taken in response is termed edge-triggered, rising or falling depending on which side of rectangular pulse.  A digital timing diagram is an example of a well-ordered collection of rectangular pulses.

Nyquist pulse
A Nyquist pulse is one which meets the Nyquist ISI criterion and is important in data transmission. An example of a pulse which meets this condition is the sinc function.  The sinc pulse is of some significance in signal-processing theory but cannot be produced by a real generator for reasons of causality.

In 2013, Nyquist pulses were produced in an effort to reduce the size of pulses in optical fibers, which enables them to be packed 10 times more closely together, yielding a corresponding 10-fold increase in bandwidth. The pulses were more than 99 percent perfect and were produced using a simple laser and modulator.

Dirac pulse
A Dirac pulse has the shape of the Dirac delta function.  It has the properties of infinite amplitude and its integral is the Heaviside step function.  Equivalently, it has zero width and an area under the curve of unity.  This is another pulse that cannot be created exactly in real systems, but practical approximations can be achieved.  It is used in testing, or theoretically predicting, the impulse response of devices and systems, particularly filters.  Such responses yield a great deal of information about the system.

Gaussian pulse
A Gaussian pulse is shaped as a Gaussian function and is produced by the impulse response of a Gaussian filter.  It has the properties of maximum steepness of transition with no overshoot and minimum group delay.

See also 
Pulse (physics)
Wave packet

References 

Signal processing
Optical communications
Saint-Louis (glass manufacturer). The Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis is a corporation, founded in 1586 in Münzthal (Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche in French) in Lorraine. It is the oldest glass manufacturer in France with roots dating back to 1586 and the first crystal glass manufacturer in continental Europe (1781).

The Musée du cristal Saint-Louis exhibits 4 centuries of technical developments and artistic creations of the Saint-Louis factory. It is housed in one of the production halls of the factory, in Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche.

See also 
 Saint-Gobain

References

External links 
 

1767 establishments in France
Manufacturing companies established in 1767
Glassmaking companies of France
History of glass
Comité Colbert members
Museums in Moselle (department)
Companies based in Grand Est
French companies established in 1767
Cecil (programming language). Cecil is a pure object-oriented programming language that was developed by Craig Chambers at the University of Washington in 1992 to be part of the Vortex project there. Cecil has many similarities to other object-oriented languages, most notably Objective-C, Modula-3, and Self. The main goals of the project were extensibility, orthogonality, efficiency, and ease-of-use.

The language supports multiple dispatch and multimethods, dynamic inheritance, and optional static type checking. Unlike most other OOP systems, Cecil allows subtyping and code inheritance to be used separately, allowing run-time or external extension of object classes or instances. Like Objective-C, all object services in Cecil are invoked by message passing, and the language supports run-time class identification. These features allow Cecil to support dynamic, exploratory programming styles. Parameterized types and methods (generics, polymorphism), garbage collection, and delegation are also supported. Cecil also supports a module mechanism for isolating independent libraries or packages. Cecil does not presently support threads or any other form of concurrency. A standard library for Cecil is also available and includes various collection, utility, system, I/O, and GUI classes.

The Diesel language was the successor of Cecil.

References

External links
 UW Cecil Group: Home Official webpage
 Cecil language features

Dynamically typed programming languages
Object-oriented programming languages
Prototype-based programming languages