Graywolf wrote:
Actually as far as I know I started using the term MXen about 15 years ago on rec.photo.equipment.35mm to foil the Pseudo Engish Experts who insisted that MX's was incorrect (it is not). It did not take long, a couple of months, before I saw lots of people using 'Xen for all kinds of things ending with a X. While I probably can not claim to be the first person who ever used it that way, I can claim that I never saw it before then.
graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" -----------------------------------
According to some, it originated from the old computers called VAX.
The geeks started calling them VAXen instead of VAX's. Influenced from Oxen and maybe Vixen.
This happened in the 70's, so it's a pretty old saying.
That then made people talking about Boxen when they meant Unix-based computers.
This then spread into using 'xen for all sorts of things, as you say.
/Henri
