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VAXen en · NOUN

Etymology

Humorous modern use of Middle English plural ending, VAX (“Virtual Address eXtension”) + -en.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, plural, slang) plural of VAX (“a computer system of the 1970s”)
    form of VAX
    • Scientists were able to own and operate their own computers and get more computing resources with their own VAXen, including those that were operated as the first clusters. 2002, Thomas Lawrence Sterling, Beowulf cluster computing with Linux:
    • On the back-end Ethernet would be another series of VAXen, which would contain a cache of recently accessed frames. 1992, Carl Malamud, Exploring the Internet: a technical travelogue:
    • PDP-11s are still used in the atsea data collection role, so some means is necessary of transferring the data files thus produced to the VAXen […] 1987, Joseph Burton Farrell, A Versatile Tool for Data File Transfer and Manipulation:

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