strong-arm
adj : impelled by physical force especially against resistance;
"forcible entry"; "a real cop would get physical";
"strong-arm tactics" [syn: forcible, physical]
v 1: handle roughly; "He was strong-armed by the policemen"
2: be bossy towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when
she was young" [syn: bully, browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag,
boss around, hector, push around]
3: use physical force against; "They strong-armed me when I
left the restaurant"
WordNet (r) 2.0
StrongARM
A collaborative project between Digital Equipment
Corporation and Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (ARM) announced
on 1995-02-06 licensing the ARM RISC architecture to
Digital Semiconductor for the development of
high-performance, low power microprocessors.
The StrongARM family of 32-bit RISC products developed under
the agreement are faster versions of the existing ARM
processors with a somewhat different instruction set. They
are targetted at applications such as next-generation
personal digital assistants with improved user interfaces
and communications; interactive television and set-top
products; video games and multimedia edutainment systems
with realistic imaging, motion and sound; and digital imaging,
including low cost digital image capture and photo-quality
scanning and printing.
The StrongARM family has limited software compatibility with
the ARM6, ARM7 and ARM8 families due to its separate
caches for data and instructions which causes
self-modifying code to fail.
The SA-110 is the first member of the family.
(1998-09-07)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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