vaxen

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

/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)

The Jargon File

[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.