Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Which begs the question (one which I've been dying to ask for
> ages):
>
> What is the story behind geeks calling multiple computers "boxen"?
> Could it be that ox is to oxen as box is to boxen?
>From Eric Raymonds Jargon file (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/) :
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.
Scott.
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