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• VAXectomy: /vak-sek't*-mee/ [by analogy with `vasectomy'] n.
  A VAX removal. DEC's Microvaxen, especially, are much slower than newer RISC-based workstations such as the SPARC....
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• VAX /vaks/ n. 1. [from Virtual Address eXtension] The most successful minicomputer design in industry history, possibly excepting its immediate ancestor, the PDP-11.
  Between its release in 1978 and its eclipse by killer micros after about 1986, the VAX was probably the hacker's favorite machine of them all, esp....
• cratch monkey n. As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices.
  Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed....
• VMS: /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
  one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
• VMS /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
  one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
• Mars n. A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone Wrong.
  Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10 compatible computers built by Systems Concepts (now, The SC Group)...
• killer micro n. [popularized by Eugene Brooks] A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf.
  Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!...
• DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
  e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a dec mnemonic....