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minus-squarewords_number@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoSeriously though, why? Is there historic reasons for that? Did they have to pay extra for more letters back in the day?
minus-squarenothacking@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-210 months agoThey did, with core you could be paying for many dollars per bit of memory. They also often used teletypes, where you would pay in ink and time for every character.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoUnix didn’t run on core though, did it? I thought core was before its time
minus-squarenothacking@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoA early models of PDP-11, the computer Unix was developed on, did use core.
Seriously though, why? Is there historic reasons for that? Did they have to pay extra for more letters back in the day?
They did, with core you could be paying for many dollars per bit of memory. They also often used teletypes, where you would pay in ink and time for every character.
Unix didn’t run on core though, did it? I thought core was before its time
A early models of PDP-11, the computer Unix was developed on, did use core.