drop-outs
1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary 0 voltage on the
electrical mains.
2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system
saturation (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a
modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming
tty).
3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind
just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
[Jargon File]
(2001-02-22)
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