Ias

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pathopoeia \Path`o*poe"ia\, n.; pl. {-ias}. [NL., from Gr.
     paqopoii`:a; pa`qos passion + poiei^n to make.] (Rhet.)
     A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion.
     --Smart.
     [1913 Webster]



From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  IAS
       Interactive Application System (DEC)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  IAS
       
           The first modern computer.  It had main
          {registers}, processing circuits, information paths within the
          {central processing unit} and used {Von Neumann}'s
          {fetch-execute cycle}.
       
          The IAS machine's basic unit of information was a 40 bit
          {word} and the memory had 4096 words.  A word stored in memory
          could represent either an instruction or data.  Each IAS
          instruction was twenty bits long, so that two instructions
          could be stored in each 40-bit memory location.  Each
          instruction consisted of an 8-bit {operation code} and a
          12-bit address that could identify any of 2^12 locations that
          may be used to store an {operand} of the instruction.
       
          The {CPU} consisted of a data processing unit and a program
          control unit.  It contained various processing and control
          circuits along with a set of high-speed {registers} for the
          temporary storage of instructions, memory addresses and data.
       
          The main actions specified by instructions were performed by
          the arithmetic-logic circuits of the data processing unit.  An
          electronic clock circuit was used to generate the signals
          needed to synchronise the operation of the different parts of
          the system.
       
          (1996-11-24)