The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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)