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Re: Re: Summary A
Kelly:
> Tim:
> > Huh, even 15 years ago 1 Mb of memory would be payable
> > for such a big organization.
>
Oh you can _buy_ the memory, you just couldn't address it properly.
> Not for a radiation hardened, custom military computer. The memory wasn't in
> chips. It was in magnetic cores (little dounuts of feric somthing or other)
> with wires runing threw it.
Ah yes, the "core" memory. Isn't that where the term "core dump" came from?
That (stringing cores) used to be a real shit-job.
Kevin