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INFO: Full form for KTX is Contour Texture in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for AAK is Asleep At Keyboard in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for WPU is Weak Pull Up in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for ALO is Alfheim Online in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for ALO is Access List Object in Computing category
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Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City. The company was established in December 1998 as a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, using the assets Take-Two had previously acquired from BMG Interactive. Founding members of the company were Sam and Dan Houser, Terry Donovan and Jamie King, who worked for Take-Two at the time, and of which the Houser brothers were previously executives at BMG Interactive. Sam Houser heads the studio as president.

Since 1999, several companies acquired by or established under Take-Two have become part of Rockstar Games, such as Rockstar Canada (later renamed Rockstar Toronto) becoming the first one in 1999, and Rockstar Dundee the most recent in 2020. All companies organized under Rockstar Games bear the "Rockstar" name and logo. In this context, Rockstar Games is sometimes also referred to as Rockstar New York, Rockstar NY or Rockstar NYC. Rockstar Games also sports a motion capture studio in Bethpage, New York.

Rockstar Games predominantly publishes games in the action-adventure genre, while racing games also saw success for the company. One of such action-adventure game franchises is Grand Theft Auto, which Rockstar Games took over from BMG Interactive, which published the series' original 1997 entry. The most recent game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V, has sold over 140 million copies since its release in September 2013, making it one of the best-selling video games of all time. Other popular franchises published by Rockstar Games are Red Dead, Midnight Club, Max Payne and Manhunt.

INFO: Full form for RSG is Responsible Service of Gaming in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for RSG is Reliable Software Group in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for RSG is Resources Scrutiny Group in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for ABG is Abstract Board Game in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for RUN is Rewind and Unload in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for RUN is Rewind Unload in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for AIF is Automated Information Facility in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for AIF is Architected Interface Facility in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for ADX is Automatic Data Exchange in Computing category
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The average directional movement index (ADX) was developed in 1978 by J. Welles Wilder as an indicator of trend strength in a series of prices of a financial instrument. ADX has become a widely used indicator for technical analysts, and is provided as a standard in collections of indicators offered by various trading platforms.

INFO: Full form for ADX is Ad Exchange in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for ADX is Application Development Activex in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for AIO is Audio Input Output in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for AIO is Aquittement Input Output in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for AIO is Australian Informatics Olympiad in Computing category
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In computer science, asynchronous I/O (also non-sequential I/O) is a form of input/output processing that permits other processing to continue before the transmission has finished.

Input and output (I/O) operations on a computer can be extremely slow compared to the processing of data. An I/O device can incorporate mechanical devices that must physically move, such as a hard drive seeking a track to read or write; this is often orders of magnitude slower than the switching of electric current. For example, during a disk operation that takes ten milliseconds to perform, a processor that is clocked at one gigahertz could have performed ten million instruction-processing cycles.

A simple approach to I/O would be to start the access and then wait for it to complete. But such an approach (called synchronous I/O, or blocking I/O) would block the progress of a program while the communication is in progress, leaving system resources idle. When a program makes many I/O operations (such as a program mainly or largely dependent on user input), this means that the processor can spend almost all of its time idle waiting for I/O operations to complete.

Alternatively, it is possible to start the communication and then perform processing that does not require that the I/O be completed. This approach is called asynchronous input/output. Any task that depends on the I/O having completed (this includes both using the input values and critical operations that claim to assure that a write operation has been completed) still needs to wait for the I/O operation to complete, and thus is still blocked, but other processing that does not have a dependency on the I/O operation can continue.

Many operating system functions exist to implement asynchronous I/O at many levels. In fact, one of the main functions of all but the most rudimentary of operating systems is to perform at least some form of basic asynchronous I/O, though this may not be particularly apparent to the user or the programmer. In the simplest software solution, the hardware device status is polled at intervals to detect whether the device is ready for its next operation. (For example, the CP/M operating system was built this way. Its system call semantics did not require any more elaborate I/O structure than this, though most implementations were more complex, and thereby more efficient.) Direct memory access (DMA) can greatly increase the efficiency of a polling-based system, and hardware interrupts can eliminate the need for polling entirely. Multitasking operating systems can exploit the functionality provided by hardware interrupts, whilst hiding the complexity of interrupt handling from the user. Spooling was one of the first forms of multitasking designed to exploit asynchronous I/O. Finally, multithreading and explicit asynchronous I/O APIs within user processes can exploit asynchronous I/O further, at the cost of extra software complexity.

Asynchronous I/O is used to improve throughput, latency, and/or responsiveness.

INFO: Full form for AIO is Akamai Internet Observatory in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for WPK is Wireless Public Key in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for WPK is Web Pedagogical Knowledge in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for KSF is Kamikaze Strike Force in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for ADV is Auto Detect Voltage in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for ADV is Advanced Digital Video in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for ADV is Audit Vault in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for RIS is Raster Image Set in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for RIS is Reduced Instruction Set in Computing category
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The Radio Information Service or RIS was a reading service for the blind in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that was carried via subcarrier on WDUQ in Pittsburgh.

Prior to closing in 2009, the RIS weekly audience was 1,200 listeners with two-thirds of the audience over 60 years of age. Most listeners lived in Allegheny, Washington and Westmoreland Counties but RIS also served nine other counties in the region, including Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence and Somerset. RIS also serves parts of Ohio and West Virginia.

Listeners accessed RIS through a special FM radio receiver, over the Internet, on Comcast Cable systems or through the RIS Telephone Dial-In Service.

INFO: Full form for XWP is Xerox Writer Processor in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for XWP is Crosstalk for Windows Phonebook in Computing category
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INFO: Full form for WLG is Watson Log in Computing category
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