What is "romp"

Romp \Romp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Romped; p. pr. & vb. n. Romping.] [A variant of ramp. See Ramp to leap, Rampallian.]

1. To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

2. To go rapidly and without strained effort.

3. To win easily; -- often used with over, in sports games; as, the Yankees romped over the Boston Red Sox, 10-2.

Romp \Romp\, n.

1. A girl who indulges in boisterous play.

2. Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.

   While romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust.
   --Thomson.

1709, "to play, sport, frolic;" 1734, "piece of lively play;" perhaps a variant of ramp (v.); but also see romp (n.). Meaning "to win (a contest) with great ease" first attested 1888. Related: Romped; romping.\n

1734, "piece of lively play," from romp (v.). From 1706 as "a wanton girl" (probably a variant of ramp (n.2)).

n. 1 A period of boisterous play, a frolic. 2 (context slang English) A bout of playful or boisterous sex. 3 (context archaic English) A girl who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously. 2 (context transitive US English) (Often used with ''down'') To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress. 3 To win easily. 4 (context slang English) To engage in playful or boisterous sex.

1. n. an easy victory [syn: runaway, blowout, laugher, shoo-in, walkaway]

2. a girl who behaves in a boyish manner [syn: tomboy, hoyden]

3. gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly" [syn: play, frolic, gambol, caper]

4. v. play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom" [syn: frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, run around, lark about]

5. run easily and fairly fast

6. win easily; "romp a race"

ROMP may refer to:

• ROMP, Research (Office Products Division) Micro Processor
• Ring opening metathesis polymerization, an olefin polymerization method
• Romp Comet, a type of Prankster Comet from the video game Super Mario Galaxy 2
• ROMP, A New Brunswick based indie rock band.

The ROMP or Research OPD Micro Processor was a 10 MHz RISC microprocessor designed by IBM in the early 1980s. It is also known in some circles as 032. "OPD" stands for "Office Products Division", the division of IBM which originated the processor. The ROMP was manufactured on a 2 µm process with 45,000 transistors, saw first in silicon in 1981, and was originally developed to be used in office equipment and small computers. It was intended as a follow-on to a mid-1970s processor called the " OPD Mini Processor", which was used in text editing systems such as the IBM Office System/6. ROMP originally was shipped in the IBM RT/PC line, announced in 1986, and was later used in an IBM laser printer. For a time the IBM RT/PC was planned to be a personal computer, with ROMP replacing the Intel 8088. However, the software was targeted more towards engineering workstations.

The original ROMP had a 24-bit Reduced Instruction Set Computer ( RISC) architecture developed by IBM, but the instruction set was changed to 32 bits a few years into the development. It was originally implemented in a 2 µm NMOS technology. It had sixteen 32-bit general purpose registers and used 32-bit addresses and data paths. The microprocessor was controlled by 118 simple two- and four-byte instructions. Internal processor organization enabled the CPU to execute most register-to-register instructions in a single cycle. An IBM-developed advanced memory management chip provided virtual memory address translation functions and memory control.

The architectural work started in late spring of 1977, as a spin-off of the T.J. Watson Research 801 processor (hence the "Research" in the acronym). Most of the architectural changes were for cost reductions, such as adding 16-bit instructions for byte-efficiency - a main concern at the time. For embedded systems, this is still a concern; ARM, MIPS and Power Architecture have all added 16-bit instructions to their architectures, which were originally 32-bit only.

The first chips were ready in early 1981. Thus, ROMP was possibly the first working commercial RISC, depending on whether or not it was a true RISC and whether or not one could count it as a commercial product in 1981, since it didn't actually ship until 1986. This delay was caused by overly ambitious software plans for the RT/PC and its operating system (OS). This OS virtualized the hardware and could host multiple other operating systems, though UNIX was the only operating system to be ported to the underlying virtual OS. This technology, called virtualization, while commonplace in mainframe systems, only began to gain traction in smaller systems in the 21st century. The IBM RT/PC consequently fell behind competitors such as Sun Microsystems and Apollo Computer who ported UNIX directly to their platforms.