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