On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, John W. Baxter wrote:

> Except that very few modern machines use "core".  (I'm not even sure Atlas
> used it.)  

Atlas used it. IBM 360s and even early 370s used it. We had 2 megabytes 
of core on our 370/165 but the 3rd and 4th megabytes that were 
subsequently added were semiconductor memory. Each megabyte about the 
size of a domestic refrigerator.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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