VAXen

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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}.
  
  



From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  VAXen
       
          /vak'sn/ (From "oxen", perhaps influenced by "vixen") The
          plural canonically used among hackers for the {DEC} {VAX}
          computers.  "Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty
          vaxen."
       
          See {boxen}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-02-20)