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ASP is a three-letter acronym with numerous meanings in different contexts.
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- Active Server Pages, a web-scripting interface by Microsoft
- Advanced Simple Profile, an MPEG-4 video codec profile
- Answer set programming, a declarative programming language
- 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 two early IBM 360/370 mainframe Operating System programs for spooling print output and controlling Input/Output devices. This ASP eventually evolved into JES3 (Job Entry Subsystem 3). The other was HASP (Houston Automated Spooling Program) which evolved into JES2.
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- 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
- American Self Protection, a martial art
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- Abnormal situation prevention, preventing non-routine plant incidents outside the control of normal process automation systems
- Adirondack State Park, a park in the state of New York, USA
- Afro-Shirazi Party
- Albany Student Press
- Alice Springs Airport (IATA airport code)
- Anglo-Saxon Protestant, as part of the acronym WASP
- Appalachia Service Project, a Christian volunteer organization operating in Central Appalachia
- Aspatria railway station, the National Rail code for the train station in the United Kingdom
- Assistant Superintendent of Police, a police rank
- Astronaut Support Person, a NASA astronaut responsible for monitoring Orbiter status as it undergoes testing and maintenance
- Alta Scuola Politecnica, a school of excellence founded by Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino
- Australian Students Prize
- Adam Sheehan Perkins, a video gaming legend that refers to himself as the ASP. Relation is intended towards the species of snake.
- Automatic Savings Plan, to automatically transfer money from one banking account to another for savings or investments.
- American School of Paris, an American/International K-12 school located in the suburbs of Paris
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