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• BSD /B-S-D/ n. [abbreviation for `Berkeley Software Distribution'] a family of Unix versions for the DEC VAX and PDP-11 developed by Bill Joy and others at Berzerkeley starting around 1980
  incorporating paged virtual memory, TCP/IP networking enhancements, and many other features....
• BSD: /B-S-D/ n. [abbreviation for `Berkeley System Distribution'] a family of {{UNIX}} versions for the {DEC} {VAX} and PDP-11 developed by Bill Joy and others at {Berzerkeley} starting around 1980
  incorporating paged virtual memory, TCP/IP networking enhancements, and many other features....
• VAX: A machine for the 80's, and it still is.
• DEC: n. Digital Equipment Corporation. Before the {killer micro} revolution of the late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering timesharing machines.
  The first of the group of cultures described by this lexicon nucleated around the PDP-1 (see {TMRC}....
• 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....
• PDP-10 n. [Programmed Data Processor model 10] The machine that made timesharing real.
  It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
• PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that made timesharing real.
  It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
• VAXen /vak'sn/ n. [from `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'] (alt.
  `vaxen') The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers....
• Some things are still sacred--I haven't taken them apart yet.