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• VAXectomy /vak-sek't*-mee/ n. [by analogy with `vasectomy'] A VAX removal.
  DEC's Microvaxen, especially, are much slower than newer RISC-based workstations such as the SPARC....
• 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....
• 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...
• hacking run: [analogy with `bombing run' or `speed run'] n.
  A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours....
• vaxherd: n. /vaks'herd/ [from `oxherd'] A VAX operator. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• killer micro: [popularized by Eugene Brooks] n. 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!...
• VAXen: /vak'sn/ [from `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'] n.
  (alt. `vaxen') The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers....
• 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....
• 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....