[wellylug] Re: ncd explora X terminals

jumbophut jumbophut at gmail.com
Fri Jul 30 14:53:07 NZST 2004


On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:48:45 +1200 (NZST), David Antliff wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> 
> > The 'boxen'
> 
> Yeah, and it's meant to sound similar to VAXen... *mutter*
> 

Obligatory Jargon-file credit:
<http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/boxen.html>

And VAXen comes from Oxen, which is (in real English) the plural of
Ox.  It all makes sense to me now.


-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')




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