>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?
Prolly. It may predate the term geeks though.
>It seems to be exclusive to geeks (and primarily those of a Unix
>persuasion I might add)!
Vaxes used to be called vaxen, and that's not Unix specific.
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