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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.

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vaxherd /vaks'herd/ n. obs.

[from `oxherd'] A VAX operator. The image is reinforced

because VAXen actually did tend to come in herds, technically

known as `clusters'.

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