May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:56 AM

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