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drop-outs
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n. 1. A variety of power glitch (see glitch ); momentary 0 voltage on the
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electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software
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malfunction or system saturation (one cause of such behavior under Unix when
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a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character
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interrupts; see screaming tty ). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of
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describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a
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couple of beats. See glitch , fried. A really serious case of drop-outs.
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(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-05-21. The previous one is
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73-05-19.
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