May 15, 2003

boxen

/bok´sn/ pl.n.

[very common; by analogy with VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase ‘Unix boxen’, used to describe commodity Unix hardware. The connotation is that any two Unix boxen are interchangeable.

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

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