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• 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....
• VAXen: /vak'sn/ [from `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'] n.
  (alt. `vaxen') The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers....
• VAXen /vak'sn/ n. [from `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'] (alt.
  `vaxen') The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers....
• Missed'em-five: n. Pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V UNIX, generally used by {BSD} partisans in a bigoted mood.
  (The synonym `SysVile' is also encountered.) See {software bloat}, {Berzerkeley}....
• oaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controlle
  often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller})....
• are mode: [UNIX] adj. CBREAK mode (character-by-character with interrupts enabled).
  Distinguished from {raw mode} and {cooked mode}...
• uperuser: [UNIX] n. Syn. {root}, {avatar}. This usage has spread to non-UNIX environme
  he superuser is any account with all {wheel} bits on....
• footprint: n. 1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
  2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often in plural, `footprints')....
• UUCPNET: n. The store-and-forward network consisting of all the world's connected UNIX machines (and others running some clone of the UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX CoPy) software).
  Any machine reachable only via a {bang path} is on UUCPNET....