I vaguely recall a computer game called Core War
consisting of two programs trying to erase each other from memory
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

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date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:46:12 -0700
from: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Cores, Threads and Intel vs Power7

Kirk Goins wrote:
What about IBM's new 775 water cooled with 256 real cores?

Anybody remember when "core" was a type of memory?

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102633835

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JHHL


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