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plaid screen
n. [XEROX PARC] 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. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an
error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a
display hack.