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donuts
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donuts /n. obs./ A collective noun for any set of memory bits.
This usage is extremely archaic and may no longer be live jargon;
it dates from the days of ferrite-core memories in which each
bit was implemented by a doughnut-shaped magnetic flip-flop.
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