VAXen /vak'sn/ n.
[from `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'] (alt. `vaxen') The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers. "Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty vaxen." See boxen.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.
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