Box

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box

Usage: n.

box: n.

A computer; esp. in the construction foo box where foo is some functional qualifier, like graphics, or the name of an OS (thus, Unix box, Windows box, etc.) "We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before handing it up to the mainframe."

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Source: box, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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