May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:24 AM

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