VAXen

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VAXen
/vak´sn/
Usage: n.
Derivation: From `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'
Variation: vaxen

See Also: boxen


VAXen: /vak´sn/ n.

[from `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'] (alt.: vaxen) The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers. "Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty vaxen." See boxen.

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


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