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• VAXen: /vak'sn/ [from `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'] n.
  (alt. `vaxen') The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers....
• boxen: /bok'sn/ [by analogy with {VAXen}] pl.n. 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. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• boxen /bok'sn/ pl.n. [very common; by analogy with VAXen] 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....
• bixen pl.n. Users of BIX (the BIX Information eXchange, formerly the Byte Information eXchange).
  Parallels other plurals like boxen, VAXen, oxen....
• 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'....
• worm: [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] n.
  A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes....
• 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...
• Are we not men? We are Vaxen.
• worm n. [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes.
  Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms....