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  From: Adam Smith <adam.smith@sageautomation.com>
  To  : LinuxSA \(E-mail\) <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:24:23 +0930

RE: [OT] *gripe*

> lost count.... linux boxen we have for dialup gateways, 

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. 


Guess I should have looked a little harder =)


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