drop-outs : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drop-outs	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for drop-outs
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
drop-outs n. 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 behavior 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}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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)