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2. Syn. fandango on core.
*** sillycon valley
Humerous reference to Silicon Valley, owing to the fact that much of what goes on there seems like a silly con-trick.
*** silo
1. The FIFO input-character buffer in an RS-232 line card. So called from DEC terminology used on DH and DZ line cards for the VAX and PDP-11 , presumably because it was a storage space for fungible stuff that went in at the top and came out at the bottom.

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<p>1. A ridiculous procedure required to accomplish a task. Like grovel , but more random and humorous. I had to silly-walk through half the /usr directories to find the maps file. </p>
<p>2. Syn. fandango on core.</p>
<H4>sillycon valley</H4>
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Humerous reference to Silicon Valley, owing to the fact that much of what goes on there seems like a silly con-trick.
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<H4>silo</H4>
<p>1. The FIFO input-character buffer in an RS-232 line card. So called from DEC terminology used on DH and DZ line cards for the VAX and PDP-11 , presumably because it was a storage space for fungible stuff that went in at the top and came out at the bottom. </p>

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sillycon valley
Humerous reference to Silicon Valley, owing to the fact that much of what goes
on there seems like a silly con-trick.