19 Jul
2005
19 Jul
'05
13:59
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 9:05 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
I didn't know that, that is interesting. What was that based on? I'm guessing it wasn't based on the temporary flow of electricity, the way modern memory sticks are Modern memory sticks are dynamic, and require power to maintain memory. Prior to about 1965, virtually all computers used core memory. Hence, when a program crashes we get the proverbial "core dump". -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9