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silo
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n. 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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