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ACE(Advanced Computing Environment) An open standard based on Unix and Windows NT introduced in 1991 by MIPS Computer Systems and others. Although later disbanded, its purpose was to provide users a migration path from x86 PCs to MIPS RISC machines. ace 1. Tennis a winning serve that the opponent fails to reach 2. Golf chiefly US a hole in one
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| I had a friend who was once in the French flying-corps, and when Ace let himself out, he certainly flew. Daylight picked the ace from his hand and tossed it over alongside MacDonald's ace, saying:- Once a great noisy bee was within an ace of waking her, but I caught him with inspired dexterity, and he buzzed around her head no more. |
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