VAXEN

Meaning of VAXEN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ /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 .

Jargon File English vocabulary. Английский словарь жаргона. 2012

VAXEN — /vak'sn/ (From "oxen", perhaps influenced by "vixen") The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers. "Our installation …
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VAXEN — Two or more VAXes
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VAXOCENTRISM — /vak"soh-sen"trizm/ [analogy with "ethnocentrism"] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions …
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VAXHERD — /vaks'herd/ ["oxherd"] An operator who tends one or more VAXen . [ Jargon File ]
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MCVAX — mcvax.cwi.nl used to be the international backbone node of EUnet , the European Unix network. It was located in Amsterdam, …
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KREMVAX — /krem-vaks/ Originally, a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names …
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FOOGOL — A tiny ALGOL -like language by Per Lindberg, based on the VALGOL I compiler, G.A. Edgar, DDJ May 1985. Runs …
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BOXEN — /bok'sn/ (By analogy with VAXen ) A fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase "Unix boxen", used to …
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BOGON FILTER — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a …
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SETL2 — SETL with more conventional Ada -like syntax, lexical scope , full block structure, first-class function s and a package and …
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BERKELEY NETWORK — (B-NET) Top level Unix Ethernet software developed at the University of California at Berkeley . There are no formal specifications …
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BITNET — < networking > /bit'net/ (Because It's Time NETwork) An academic and research computer network connecting approximately 2500 computers. BITNET provides …
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WORM — [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, …
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VAXOCENTRISM — [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that …
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VAXHERD — [from `oxherd'] A VAX operator. The image is reinforced because VAXen actually did tend to come in herds, technically known …
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KREMVAX — [from the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax ] Originally, a fictitious Usenet site …
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BREAK-EVEN POINT — In the process of implementing a new computer language, the point at which the language is sufficiently effective that one …
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BOXEN — [very common; by analogy with VAXen ] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase `Unix boxen', used to …
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BOGON FILTER — Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter …
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BIXEN — Users of BIX (the BIX Information eXchange, formerly the Byte Information eXchange). Parallels other plurals like boxen, VAXen , oxen.
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BITNET — [acronym: Because It's Time NETwork] Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see the network ) - until AOL happened. …
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