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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: What are asa, bwmovie, byteyears, clap, seal, ship?
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Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 15:59:50 EST
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In article <7348@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Maybe they got "clap" from us (clap was our VLSI layout language circa 1980).
>Could be.  My guess was that "clap" was something related to animation work.

Well, if we're going to flood the net with guesses, then perhaps
"clap" was a precursor to "crabs"?  (Fill the DMD screen with
slowly growing blotches?)