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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'....
• amp off: [Purdue] vt. To run in {background}. From the UNIX shell `&' operator.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• digit: n. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
  See also {VAX}, {VMS}, {PDP-10}, {{TOPS-10}}, {DEChead}, {double DECkers}, {field circus}....
• VAXen: /vak'sn/ [from `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'] n.
  (alt. `vaxen') The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers....
• ilo: n. The FIFO input-character buffer in an RS-232 line card.
  So called from DEC terminology used on DH and DZ line cards for the VAX and PDP-11, presumably because it was a storage space for fungible stuff that went in at the top and came out at the bottom....
• en-finger interface: n. The interface between two networks that cannot be directly connected for security reaso
  efers to the practice of placing two terminals side by side and having an operator read from one and type into the other....
• unwind-protect: [MIT: from the name of a LISP operator] n.
  A task you must remember to perform before you leave a place or finish a project....
• FUBAR: n. The Failed UniBus Address Register in a VAX.
  A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the {suit}...
• 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....