Core
/kȯr/
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. Commonwealth hackish
prefers store.
other jargon:
