Automated Order System (AOS)
Investment banks , computerized order entry system that sends single order entries to DOT (Odd-Lot) or to investment banks , floor brokers on the exchange. See: Round lot, GTC orders . | ||||
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AOS Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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1. /aws/ (East Coast), /ay-os/ (West Coast) A PDP-10 instruction that took any memory location and added 1 to it. AOS meant "Add One and do not Skip". Why, you may ask, does the "S" stand for "do not Skip" rather than for "Skip"? Ah, here was a beloved piece of PDP-10 folklore. There were eight such instructions: AOSE added 1 and then skipped the next instruction if the result was Equal to zero; AOSG added 1 and then skipped if the result was Greater than 0; AOSN added 1 and then skipped if the result was Not 0; AOSA added 1 and then skipped Always; and so on. Just plain AOS didn't say when to skip, so it never skipped.
For similar reasons, AOJ meant "Add One and do not Jump". Even more bizarre, SKIP meant "do not SKIP"! If you wanted to skip the next instruction, you had to say "SKIPA". Likewise, JUMP meant "do not JUMP"; the unconditional form was JUMPA. However, hackers never did this. By some quirk of the 10's design, the JRST (Jump and ReSTore flag with no flag specified) was actually faster and so was invariably used. Such were the perverse mysteries of assembler programming.
2. /A-O-S/ or /A-os/ A Multics-derived operating system supported at one time by Data General.
A spoof of the standard AOS system administrator's manual ("How to Load and Generate your AOS System") was created, issued a part number, and circulated as photocopy folklore; it was called "How to Goad and Levitate your CHAOS System".
3. Algebraic Operating System, in reference to those calculators which use infix operators instead of postfix notation.
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(1995-11-26)
1. /aws/ (East Coast), /ay-os/ (West Coast) A PDP-10 instruction that took any memory location and added 1 to it. AOS meant "Add One and do not Skip". Why, you may ask, does the "S" stand for "do not Skip" rather than for "Skip"? Ah, here was a beloved piece of PDP-10 folklore. There were eight such instructions: AOSE added 1 and then skipped the next instruction if the result was Equal to zero; AOSG added 1 and then skipped if the result was Greater than 0; AOSN added 1 and then skipped if the result was Not 0; AOSA added 1 and then skipped Always; and so on. Just plain AOS didn't say when to skip, so it never skipped.
For similar reasons, AOJ meant "Add One and do not Jump". Even more bizarre, SKIP meant "do not SKIP"! If you wanted to skip the next instruction, you had to say "SKIPA". Likewise, JUMP meant "do not JUMP"; the unconditional form was JUMPA. However, hackers never did this. By some quirk of the 10's design, the JRST (Jump and ReSTore flag with no flag specified) was actually faster and so was invariably used. Such were the perverse mysteries of assembler programming.
2. /A-O-S/ or /A-os/ A Multics-derived operating system supported at one time by Data General.
A spoof of the standard AOS system administrator's manual ("How to Load and Generate your AOS System") was created, issued a part number, and circulated as photocopy folklore; it was called "How to Goad and Levitate your CHAOS System".
3. Algebraic Operating System, in reference to those calculators which use infix operators instead of postfix notation.
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(1995-11-26)
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Add Or Subtract
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AOS Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
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area of separation
area of separation
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Air Launched Sonar Surveillance System
Air Launched Sonar Surveillance System
AOS Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Arrived On Scene
Arrived On Scene
AOS Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Arctic Ocean Section
Arctic Ocean Section
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Attitude and Orbit control Subsystem
Attitude and Orbit control Subsystem
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Alarm on Statistics (Vodafone)
Alarm on Statistics (Vodafone)
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(Department of) Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
(Department of) Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
AOS Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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AOS Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Smith AO Corp
Exchange: NYSE
Produces fractional and hermetic electric motors; Manufactures and markets residential and commercial gas, oil and electric water heating systems; And formerly manufactured reinforced thermosetting resin piping, and agricultural, industrial and municipal liquid and dry bulk storage systems.
Smith AO Corp
Exchange: NYSE
Produces fractional and hermetic electric motors; Manufactures and markets residential and commercial gas, oil and electric water heating systems; And formerly manufactured reinforced thermosetting resin piping, and agricultural, industrial and municipal liquid and dry bulk storage systems.
AOS Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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AoS or AOS may refer to:
- Accessory olfactory system, a sensory system often responsible for the detection of pheromones
- Academy of the Sierras, boarding schools devoted to weight loss
- Ace of Spades HQ, a blog
- Additive Operator Splitting, a numerical scheme that decompose a multi-dimensional problem into one-dimensional ones that can be solved very efficiently.
- Adjustment of Status, immigration concept in the United States of America
- AOS/VS, Data General's Advanced Operating System
- CCSDS Advanced Orbiting System, see Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
- Aeon of Strife, a genre of map for real-time strategy games
- Age of Sail (computer game) and its sequel Age of Sail II
- Agricultural Ontology Service
- Ahlgren Olsson Silow, a Swedish architecture company
- Airway Operational Support
- Algebra of Systems, an executable framework for model synthesis and evaluation.
- The Alice Ottley School in Worcester.
- AO Springfield School, in Worcester.
- Area of Search
- , a game in the Castlevania series for the Game Boy Advance
- Armed Offenders Squad
- Associate of Occupational Studies, a type of two-year college degree.
- Atom Operating System, a DOS-based OS
- Austin Osman Spare, English occultist, (1886 - 1956)
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