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I think it originated with the cluster computing use of Digital Equipment Corporation VAX computers. (Standing for Virtual Address Extension, a virtual memory scheme) A server room full of these (And they were usually big, so think of half a floor, not a plumbing closet) might be refered to as a herd of VAXen. When cheaper more commodity hardware Unix machines came along, the term boxen from Unix Boxes > Unix Boxen came into currency.
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I remember The RoadWarrior..To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time..the world was powered by the black fuel & the desert sprouted great cities..Gone now, swept away..two mighty warrior tribes went to war & touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing..thundering machines sputtered & stopped..Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice
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