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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unix didn't run on core though, did it? I thought core was before its time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A early models of PDP-11, the computer Unix was developed on, did use core.