What are asa, bwmovie, byteyears, clap, seal, ship?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <7348 at utzoo.UUCP> henry at 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?)