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

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 Vintage Computing Server Engineer Vulcan, Inc. 505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900 Seattle, WA 98104 mailto:RichA at vulcan.com (206) 342-2239 (206) 465-2916 cell http://www.pdpplanet.org/