boxen

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:boxen: /boksn/ /pl.n./ [by analogy with VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase Unix boxen, used to describe commodity [[[[Unix]]]] hardware. The connotation is that any two Unix boxen are interchangeable.
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