core-memory

Anybody that ever did some programming on a Unix based system will be familiar with Core Dumps, but ever wondered where that name came from? It comes from a time (1950s - 1970s) where computer stored data on ferrite cores, a lot of tiny ferrite cores. And in case something went wrong, the data stored on those tiny ferrite cores was printed, dumped, on paper to be analyzed, a core dump. [Read More]