Custom Search

silo

[prev][up][next]

silo: n. 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.


[prev][up][next] 1 hits in May 2012
mes@science.uva.nl