boxen

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Boxen \Box"en\ (b[o^]ks"'n), a. Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [R.] [1913 Webster]

The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

boxen

/bok'sn/ (By analogy with VAXen) A 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. [Jargon File]

(1994-11-29)

The Jargon File

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.

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