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• plaid screen: [XEROX PARC] n. A `special effect' that occurs when certain kinds of {memory smash}es overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display.
  The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin....
• MOUSE Computer input device, named by some scientists at Xerox when they were pissed out of their brains.
  They also labelled the computer's display screen a Vole, but were less successful in spreading of this term....
• PARC n. See XEROX PARC.
• memory smash n. [XEROX PARC] Writing through a pointer that doesn't point to what you think it does.
  This occasionally reduces your machine to a rubble of bits....
• munching squares n. A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca.
  1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T -- see HAKMEM items 146-148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen....
• munching squares: n. A {display hack} dating back to the PDP-1 (ca.
  1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T --- see {HAKMEM} items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen....
• blit: /blit/ vt. 1. To copy a large array of bits from one part of a computer's memory to another pa
  particularly when the memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display screen....
• demoeffect n. [demoscene] What among hackers is called a display hack.
  Classical effects include "plasma" (colorful mess), "keftales" (x*x+y*y and other similar patterns, usually combined with color-cycling), realtime fractals, realtime 3d graphics, etc....
• memory smash: [XEROX PARC] n. Writing through a pointer that doesn't point to what you think it does.
  This occasionally reduces your machine to a rubble of bits....