Vaxen
/vak’sn/ (From “oxen”, perhaps influenced by “vixen”) The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers. “Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty vaxen.”
See boxen.
[Jargon File]
(1995-02-20)
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- Vaxism
/vak’sizm/ A piece of code that exhibits vaxocentrism in critical areas. Compare PC-ism, Unixism.
- Vax mips
benchmark (Or VAX Unit of Performance, VUP) The processing power normally attributed to a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 11/780. Future VAX systems were rated according to this scale (e.g. VAX 8350’s being 2.7 VUPs per CPU). A MicroVAX II is normally associated with 0.9 VUPs and at a later time the MicroVUP was coined to […]
- Vaxocentrism
/vak”soh-sen”trizm/ [analogy with “ethnocentrism”] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (especially under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are: 1. The assumption that dereferencing a null pointer is safe because it is all bits 0, and location 0 is readable […]
- Vaxset
A set of software development tools from DEC, including a language-sensitive editor, compilers etc.
- Vaxstation
A family of workstations from DEC based on their VAX computer architecture. (1995-02-03)