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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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Chiang Kai-Shek was a Chinese political and military leader. He served with Sun Yat-Sen during the 1911 revolution and later became leader of the nationalist government. He opposed the communists and fled to Taiwan in 1950.
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The CMI8330 is a 'Sound Blaster compatible' computer sound chip, first introduced as a prototype in Computex in July 1997. The CMI8330 3D positional sound chip was afterwards enhanced and advanced by the joint effort made by C-Media's design teams in both Taiwan and Canada. The
CMI8330 is used on various PC motherboards and sound cards including the Audio Excel PnP 310 board.
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The Dassault-Breguet Mirage 2000 is a French multi-role combat fighter. It has been operational with the French Air Force since 1984 and has been selected by Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Greece, India, Peru, Qatar, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates. Variants of the Mirage 2000 fighters are: Mirage 2000C/B single seater and two seater variants for air defence; Mirage 2000N, two seater, designed for all weather nuclear penetration at low altitude and very high speed; Mirage 2000D, which is an upgraded version of the Mirage 2000N, for automated bombing using conventional and laser guided munitions. The Mirage 2000 has nine hard points for carrying weapon system payloads, five on the fuselage and two on each wing. The single seat version is also armed with two internally mounted high firing rate 30 mm guns. Air-to-air weapons include the MICA multi-target air-to-air intercept and combat missiles and the Magic 2 combat missiles. The aircraft can carry four MICA missiles, two Magic missiles and three drop tanks simultaneously which provides a highly extended mission time. The Mirage 2000 is also equipped to carry a range of air-to-surface missiles and weapons including laser guided bombs. These include the Matra BAe Dynamics BGL 1000 laser guided bomb, Aerospatiale AS30L, Matra BAe Dynamics Armat anti-radar missile, Aerospatiale AM39 Exocet anti-ship missile, Matra BAe Dynamics rocket launchers, Matra Bae Dynamics Apache stand-off weapon, and the stealthy cruise missile, SCALP. The Mirage 2000 is equipped with an M53-P2 turbofan engine from SNECMA which provides 64 kN thrust and 98 kN with afterburn.
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The Taiwan Virus is a computer virus which infects .COM files. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation and corrupts program or overlay files.
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Tai is an abbreviation for Taiwan
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TW is an abbreviation for Taiwan
TW is an abbreviation for Thieves' World
TW is an abbreviation for Tera Watt
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CALTAI is an abbreviation for Calibration Taiwan
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The USS Haynsworth was an American Allen M Sumner Class destroyer of 2200 tons displacement launched in 1944 and later sold to Taiwan. The USS Haynsworth was powered by four boilers providing a top speed of 36.5 knots. She carried a complement of 350 and was armed with six 5 inch guns; twelve 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; eleven 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and ten 21 inch torpedo tubes arranged in two quintuplets.
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The USS Taussig was an American Allen M Sumner Class destroyer of 2200 tons displacement launched in 1944 and later sold to Taiwan and renamed the Lo Yang. The USS Adams was powered by four boilers providing a top speed of 36.5 knots. She carried a complement of 350 and was armed with six 5 inch guns; twelve 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; eleven 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and ten 21 inch torpedo tubes arranged in two quintuplets.
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