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core
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory; now
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archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the
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Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them.
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Some derived idioms are quite current; in core , for example, means in
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memory (as opposed to on disk ), and both core dump and the core image or
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core file produced by one are terms in favor. Some varieties of Commonwealth
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hackish prefer store.
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