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.
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Jargon File]
