core
1. < storage> Main memory or RAM. Thi s term date s from the day s of ferrite core memory now archaic mo st place s out side IBM, but al so still u sed in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or tho se who would sound like them. some derived idiom s are quite current "in core", for example, mean s "in memory" ( paged in, a s oppo sed to "on di sk", {paged out}), and both {core dump} and the "core image" or "core file" produced by one are term s in favour. some varietie s of Commonwealth hacki sh prefer store. [ Jargon File] (1995-03-03) 2. ssor> An integrated circuit design, usually for a microprocessor, which includes only the CPU and which is intended to form part of a complete circuit design which incorporates other circuits on the same chip such as cache, memory management unit, I/O ports and timers. The ARM6, ARM7 and ARM8 are examples. 3. A varient on kernel as used to describe features built into a language as opposed to those provided by libraries. (1995-03-03) style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-style:dashed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition suitable contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ alt ] [ AM ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ ARM ] [ ARM7 ] [ ARM8 ] [ as ] [ at ] [ av ] [ B ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bo ] [ bot ] [ br ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ cache ] [ ch ] [ chip ] [ ci ] [ circuit ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ co ] [ com ] [ complete ] [ core dump ] [ CP ] [ CPU ] [ cr ] [ cu ] [ current ] [ date ] [ de ] [ design ] [ disk ] [ du ] [ dump ] [ ed ] [ eg ] [ er ] [ es ] [ et ] [ feature ] [ ferrite core memory ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ ge ] [ gn ] [ gr ] [ gu ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hackish ] [ hose ] [ hr ] [ IBM ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ image ] [ in ] [ inc ] [ include ] [ int ] [ integrated circuit ] [ io ] [ I/O ] [ ir ] [ is ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ kernel ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ language ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ ls ] [ lt ] [ lu ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ man ] [ management ] [ memory ] [ memory management ] [ micro ] [ microprocessor ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ ms ] [ mu ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ nl ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ O ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pa ] [ page ] [ paged ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ port ] [ pr ] [ process ] [ processor ] [ query ] [ RAM ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ s ] [ sa ] [ sam ] [ sc ] [ se ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sig ] [ sk ] [ so ] [ sound ] [ st ] [ storage ] [ store ] [ su ] [ T ] [ th ] [ to ] [ ua ] [ um ] [ us ] [ va ] [ var ] [ ve ] [ vi ]
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