[Dnsmasq-discuss] [PATCH v2 1/1] fix comment

[Simon Kelley]

On 31/03/2025 14:00, Paul D wrote:
> On 2025-03-29 22:44, Simon Kelley wrote:
>> Applied, with the exception of the boxen -> boxes.
>>
>> I'm old enough to remember when "boxen" was suitable slang replacement for "boxes" c.f. ox and oxen. So I kept it in for old times' sake.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>>
> 
> Never heard that one (or considered it old English plural, children brethren oxen). Perhaps from around the time Gateway produced PCs :)
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Long before that. It's in the Jargon file.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/boxen.html

boxen: /bok�sn/, pl.n.
[very common; by analogy with VAXen] 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.

Cheers,

Simon.