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• baud barf: /bawd barf/ n. The garbage one gets on the monitor when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (esp.
  line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts the connection....
• frogging: [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• drop-ins: [prob. by analogy with {drop-outs}] n. Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort.
  Esp. used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input....
• frogging [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• drop-ins n. [prob. by analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort.
  Esp. used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input....
• baud /bawd/ n. [simplified from its technical meaning] n.
  Bits per second. Hence kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second....
• line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
  On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....
• mart terminal n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote server's storage, using local devices as displays....