VAXen [was RE: Do not call them PCMCIA Cards...]

[Rich Alderson]

> From: Chris Elmquist
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:53 PM

> oh ya... and why are they "VAXen"?  Are there "PDP 11/44en" too? I've
> got a couple Rainbowen here...

>From the Jargon File, INFO:JARGON.TXT on any well-stocked TOPS-20 system:

    VAXEN [from "oxen", perhaps influenced by "vixen"] n. pl. The plural
       of VAX (a DEC machine).

The Jargon File describes itself thusly:

                 Notes on updating this file:

    This glossary file is being maintained at two main locations.  It is
    AIWORD.RF[UP,DOC] at SAIL, and GLS;JARGON > at MIT.  If you make any
    changes, be sure to FTP the new file to the other location.   (NOTE:
    Use ASCII mode in FTP to  avoid screwing up the tilde char!)   Also,
    please let us know (see list of names in later paragraph) about your
    changes so that we can double-check them.

    Try to conform to the format already being used--70 character lines,
    3-character indentations, pronunciations in parentheses, etymologies
    in brackets, single-space after def'n numbers and word classes, etc.

    Stick to the standard ASCII character set.

    If you'd rather not mung the file yourself, send your definitions to
    DON @ SAIL, GLS @ MIT-AI, and/or MRC @ SAIL.

    The last edit (of this line, anyway) was by Don Woods on 81-07-22.

    ======================================================================

            Compiled by Guy L. Steele Jr., Raphael Finkel, Donald
            Woods, and Mark Crispin, with assistance from the MIT
            and Stanford AI communities and Worcester Polytechnic
            Institute.  Some contributions were submitted via the
            ARPAnet from miscellaneous sites.

This turned into _The Hacker's Dictionary_ a couple of years later, then
was ruined by a wannabe as _The New Hacker's Dictionary_.


Rich Alderson
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