Special Air Services. A British elite military unit that routinely undertakes special operations.
single attachment station. Device attached only to the primary ring of an FDDI ring. Also known as a Class B station. Compare with DAS. See also FDDI.
Is a procedural language developed by the SAS Institute Inc. The language is regularly used for mainframe capacity and performance analysis as it provides a rich set of functions and procedures for processing large amounts of statistical data.
Small Area Statistics - the most geographically detailed digital output from the 1981 and 1991 Censuses. A geographical data matrix of area based counts of individuals and households for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The SAS are similar in structure to the LBS but contain less detail in terms of the complexity of crosstabulations. The SAS were released at all levels of census geography down to ED/ OA level. MIDAS holds the 1991 SAS/LBS for GB, the 1991 SAS for NI and the 1981 SAS for GB.'91 GB SAS/LBS'91 NI SAS'81 GB SAS
Special Applicant Services
Salla Allaho alaihay wa sallam -Peace & blessings of Allah be on him, used for Holy Prophet of Islam, Sayyedna Muhammad, SAS
An FDDI station that offers one S port for attachment to the FDDI ring.
Space Adaptation Syndrome. Space Adaptation Syndrome (SAS), also called space motion sickness, is a syndrome that afflicts about half of all space travelers. Symptoms, which resemble those of motion sickness on earth, range from minor (nausea and headaches) to severe (vomiting) and vary from person to person. Although, the exact cause is unknown, SAS is believed to be caused by conflicting sensory inputs from the eyes, inner ear (vestibular system) and the tactile senses (touch).
Special Analytical Services
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a new generation serial communication protocol for devices designed to allow for much higher speed data transfers and is compatible with SATA. SAS uses serial communication instead of the parallel method found in traditional SCSI devices but still uses SCSI commands for interacting with SAS devices. SAS supports up to 16,384 addressable devices in an SAS domain and point to point data transfer speeds up to 3 gbit/s, but is expected to reach 10 gbit/s. The SAS connector is much smaller than traditional parallel SCSI connectors allowing for small 2.5 inch drives.
single attachment station. An FDDI station that is connected to only one ring (usually the primary).
"Serial Attached SCSI," the serial imple-mentation of the SCSI standard, providing greater flexibility, performance, reliability, and connectivity.
Special Air Service. Formed in 1941 by David Stirling, the SAS are one of, if not the, finest fighting forces in the world. Their most high profile operation was the storming of the Iranian embassy at 7:23pm, 5th May 1980, but they have conducted numerous covert operations for the last 60 years.
Serial Attached SCSI. The next-generation SCSI interface, the serial implementation of the SCSI standard, providing greater flexibility, performance, reliability, and connectivity than the current parallel SCSI mainstream interface. SAS is designed for high-performance enterprise requirements and offers both the benefits of backward compatibility with SCSI and interoperability with Serial ATA, bringing enterprises a flexibility and cost savings not previously possible. SAS-based solutions are ideal for organizations with bandwidth-intensive applications, transaction processing systems, mainline storage requirements, and rich media types such as video.
Serial Attached SCSI. The next-generation SCSI interface which provides greater flexibility, performance, reliability, and connectivity and interoperates with SATA to provide new solution price points. SAS-based solutions are ideal for organizations with bandwidth-intensive applications, transaction processing systems, mainline storage requirements, and rich media types such as video.
Single-attached (concentrator) station. A station that has a single attachment to the FDDI network, usually to the primary ring.
Serial Attached SCSI. Der Nachfolger des parallelen SCSI, welches mit Ultra320-SCSI den Höhepunkt des technisch Machbaren erreicht hat. SAS bietet Software-Kompatibilität, günstige Steckverbindungen, eine hohe Skalierbarkeit und Geschwindigkeit, SATA-Support und eine größere Flexibilität als der parallele Vorgänger.
Subscriber Authorisation System. The SAS is responsible for generating the actual entitlement messages, following the specifications of the encryption standard used.
Special Air Service The SAS are arguably the best trained unit of soldiers in the western world. Part of the British Army and few in number, this force undertakes secret and vital tactical work around the world. Formed by David Stirling, and performing their first missions in 1941, the SAS is famed for its work behind enemy lines. Several airsoft models have had the term 'SAS' attached to them in order to try to increase sales off the back of this elite unit's reputation.
Single address space. In an SAS operating system, all processes share the same address space. See also MAS.
In marketing, SAS is short for Shareasale, a good, popular affiliate network, with a strong anti-parasite stand.
A station in an FDDI network that connects to only one of the two FDDI network rings. An SAS must attach to the network through a concentrator.
Special Exchange Subscriber (as in SAS loop-start and ground-start). Identical to FXS loop and ground start in functionality, but use of the A and B bits are different. (SAS transmitted B Bits are complementary to FXS transmitted B bits. SAS received A bits are complementary to FXS received A bits).
Here used as synonym for the software of the SAS Institute, consisting of huge number of modules and techniques for data transformation and data analysis.