ASP

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ASP is a three-letter acronym with numerous meanings in different contexts.

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[edit] Combat

  • ASP (handgun), the name for a custom-designed 9 mm pistol based on the S&W Model 39
  • Advanced Sound-ranging Programme, a portable, passive, acoustic sensing system for detecting and locating the source of artillery fire and loud detonations, operated by the Royal Artillery
  • A type of extending baton often carried by police forces. ASP is actually a brand that manufactures this type of weapon (The ASP tactical baton), and the brand has come to casually refer to all telescopic batons.
  • American Self Protection, a martial art
  • Ammunition Supply Point,"ammo dump" storage facility for A&E Class V(W) items.

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  • Active Server Pages, a web-scripting interface by Microsoft
  • Abstract Service Primitive, an entity exchanged between a test system and a system under test (ISO 9646)
  • Advanced Simple Profile, an MPEG-4 video codec profile
  • Answer set programming, a declarative programming paradigm
  • Application service provider, a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network
  • Apple System Profiler, Apple Computer's system profiler
  • AppleTalk Session Protocol, a session layer protocol used by the AppleTalk suite of protocols
  • Assigned Storage Pool, a group of disk drives on IBM's i5/OS (aka OS/400) operating system
  • Association of Service Providers
  • Association of Shareware Professionals
  • ASPLinux, Russian Fedora Core-based GNU/Linux distribution.
  • Attached Support Processor, an IBM mainframe that is attached to another of higher power and that is running Automated Spooling Program, a program that is also called Automated Spooling Package. See MVT.
  • ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) Switch Processor
  • Automated Spooling Program, one of the two early IBM 360/370 mainframe programs for spooling print output and controlling input/output devices. ASP eventually evolved into Job Entry Subsystem 3 (JES3). The other was Houston Automated Spooling Program (HASP) which evolved into JES2.

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