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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>core</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="copywronged.html" title="copywronged"/><link rel="next" href="core-cancer.html" title="core cancer"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">core</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="copywronged.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="core-cancer.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="core"/><dt xmlns="" id="core"><b>core</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory;
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now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in
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the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like
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them. Some derived idioms are quite current; <span class="firstterm">in
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core</span>, for example, means ‘in memory’ (as opposed to
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‘on disk’), and both <a href="core-dump.html"><i class="glossterm">core dump</i></a> and the
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<span class="firstterm">core image</span> or <span class="firstterm">core file</span> produced by one are terms in favor.
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Some varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer
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<a href="../S/store.html"><i class="glossterm">store</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="copywronged.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="core-cancer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">copywronged </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> core cancer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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