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Comment by amszmidt

You need to go back a few more hundreds of years, hunk is an old term that just means "small piece of something larger".

It has been in common usage in computing since long before 1985 .. for a really interesting and obscure way hunk has been used:

https://www.maclisp.info/pitmanual/hunks.html

parent amszmidt 2 months ago

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