JargonFile/entries/box.txt
2014-04-26 16:54:15 +01:00

8 lines
245 B
Plaintext

box
n. A computer; esp. in the construction foo box where foo is some functional
qualifier, like graphics , or the name of an OS (thus, Unix box , Windows
box , etc.) We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before handing it up to the
mainframe.