VAXen

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 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}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

VAXen

   /vak'sn/ (From "oxen", perhaps influenced by "vixen") The
   plural canonically used among hackers for the {DEC} {VAX}
   computers.  "Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty
   vaxen."

   See {boxen}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1995-02-20)

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