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)
Nearby terms:
boustrophedonic « box « boxed comments « boxen
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