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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What is a silo?
Message-ID: <16321@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 2 Jun 91 00:23:08 GMT
References: <15092@hacgate.UUCP> <13796@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <13796@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>          The 8530 character  input  silo  overflowed  before  it
>          could be serviced.
>just as it says in your manual page.

Of course, the interesting question is why his PRINTER would be providing
lots of INPUT.  My guess is that it's sending DC3 and DC1 characters in an
attempt to flow-control the output, but it could also be other things.