Definitions

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  • adjective Without a buffer.

Etymologies

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buffer +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The Mac Plus has the slowest SCSI ever found in a Mac - at 2.1 kbps even the lowly SE is about 2. 5x as fast - but adding a modest hard drive with a built-in buffer will really speed things up over floppies or ancient bufferless hard drives.

    Low End Mac 2009

  • The Tata photon+ speeds are not great enough to provide realtime bufferless streaming of TV content.

    WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India 2009

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