Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Boxen \Box"en\ (b[o^]ks"'n), a.
Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box
({Buxus}). [R.]
The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. --Dryden.
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
boxen
/bok'sn/ (By analogy with {VAXen}) A 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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(1994-11-29)