This term has its origins in an old kind of memory (pictured below). The term remains popular in programming (well, debugging) circles with a very similar meaning to how it originated, although the technology has moved on. (Variants of the term are often used, however, to mean things that have nothing to do at all about the origin, especially among management types). What term?

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