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silo
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1. The FIFO input-character buffer in an RS-232 line card. So called from
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DEC terminology used on DH and DZ line cards for the VAX and PDP-11 ,
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presumably because it was a storage space for fungible stuff that went in at
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the top and came out at the bottom.
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2. Centralized internet social network system in which all of the user data
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belongs to one organization and resides within one server or set of servers
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owned by the organization. Silos typically employ the network effect and
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user interface antipatterns in order to keep their users trapped within
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the silo. The opposite of silo computing is decentralised or distributed
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computing.
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