Aunc.1838 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!unc!smb Thu Feb 11 10:06:04 1982 Re: Silo overflows The message is probably referring to a line hooked to another machine that's spitting out characters at a high rate; presumably, there's a retry protocol that's working right. Silo overflows here happen most often when some other device gets some sort of I/O error and feels this urge to dump bits all over our console -- and we've got some *awfully* strange devices on our UBAs.