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PDP11, Qbus and Unibus VAX: Fix DZ to be well behaved in silo filling mode - #575

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@markpizz markpizz commented Aug 7, 2026

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Some OS DZ device drivers avoid per character incoming interrupt overhead by leveraging the 16 byte silo to accumulate characters and then draining the whole silo. Previously the silo wasn't actively being filled in this mode.

This fixes the incoming character speed issue reported in #571

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Some OS DZ device drivers avoid per character incoming interrupt overhead
by leveraging the 16 byte silo to accumulate characters and then draining
the whole silo.  Previously the silo wasn't actively being filled in this mode.
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