Different types of coal have different uses. 1  Steam coal - also known as thermal coal - is mainly used in power generation.  Coking coal - also known as metallurgical coal - is mainly used in steel production.
An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.aestro I is a product from Softlab Munich and was the world's first integrated development environment 1975 for software. Maestro I was installed for 22,000 programmers worldwide. Until 1989, 6,000 installations existed in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Officially an Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) device (evolving from the AT bus), IDE's primary contribution was building the controller into the drive itself, requiring only a simple circuit on the motherboard. The ATA Packet Interface is the version for optical and removable drives (see ATAPI).