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• core n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory
  ow 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....
• ore: [prob. from techspeak `main store'] n. In some varieties of Commonwealth hackish, the preferred synonym for {core}.
  Thus, `bringing a program into store' means not that one is returning shrink-wrapped software but that a program is being {swap}ped in....
• ore n. [prob. from techspeak `main store'] In some varieties of Commonwealth hackish, the preferred synonym for core.
  Thus, `bringing a program into store' means not that one is returning shrink-wrapped software but that a program is being swapped in....
• dump: n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system
  especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
• donuts: n.obs. A collective noun for any set of memory bits.
  This usage is extremely archaic and may no longer be live jargo...
• core dump: n. [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by UNIX] 1.
  [techspeak] A copy of the contents of {core}, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error....
• uke: /n[y]ook/ vt. 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume.
  On UNIX, `rm -r /usr' will nuke everything in the usr filesystem....
• dump n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system
  especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare core dump), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal runes describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
• fandango on core: [UNIX/C hackers, from the Mexican dance] n.
  In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a {core dump}, or corrupts the `malloc(3)' {arena} in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have `done a fandango on core'....