Fas

Fas: see Fès, Morocco.

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Fès

 or Fez Arabic Fas

City (pop., 1994: 541,162), northern Morocco. The oldest of Morocco's four imperial cities, it was founded on opposite banks of the Wadi Fès by Idris I c. 789 and Idris II c. 809. The two parts were united by the Almoravid dynasty in the 11th century to become a major Islamic city. Fès reached its zenith under the Marinid dynasty as a centre of learning and commerce in the mid-14th century and has kept its religious primacy through the ages. The site of the oldest mosque in northern Africa, it is also the seat of an Islamic university founded in 859. A centre for trade and traditional crafts, it was until the late 19th century the only place where the fez hat was made.

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fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

Various congenital disorders in a newborn caused by the mother drinking alcohol during pregnancy. The main symptoms are retarded growth, abnormalities of the central nervous system, and certain face and head abnormalities. The child may be mentally retarded. Behavioral problems (e.g., poor concentration, impulsiveness) are sometimes the only obvious symptoms. The syndrome is common in babies born to chronic alcoholics, but health care organizations now commonly recommend that women cease drinking alcohol entirely while pregnant. Other disorders have been linked to alcohol in breast milk.

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1.		fas - Frankenstein Cross Assemblers. A reconfigurable assembler package, especially suited for 8-bit processors, consisting of a base assembler module and a yacc parser, for each microprocessor, to handle mnemonics and addressing. Second party parser modules available from many sites. Base assembler and yacc parser modules by Mark Zenier. FTP: ftp.njit.edu/pub/msdos/frankasm/frankasm.zoo.
2.		fas - FAS. A general purpose language sponsored by the Finnish government in the 70's and 80's.