holy wars = H = home machine

home box n.

A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she owns. "Yeah? Well, my home box runs a full 4.4 BSD, so there!"

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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