This was obviously an easy question -- everybody's repsonses were
pretty much the same. Here's a typical one:
Eric --
A "silo overflow" happens when input to a serial line comes in faster
than the computer can process it.
The "silo" referred to is a hardware input buffer associated with a
serial port. The serial line hardware (e.g., ALM board) detects when
the buffer overflows and sets a bit in a status register to warn the
computer that some incoming data was lost on a given line.
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