VaxDefinitions
Avax: A low-flying VAX with radar.
Grody to the Vax: Like, y'know, the VAX in the valley fer sher!
Income Vax: What one shouts when the VAX is delivered.
"No Vax To Grind": A put-down administered to those without a
dial-up line, and hence no access to the VAX; as in "Infidel! Let
that terminal alone! You have no VAX to grind!"
To Vax Eloquent: The act of preparing a glossary for the VAX.
Vax: Long-haired northern cousins of the buffalo, used as beasts
of burden in Tibet.
Vax and the SIngle Girl: A relationship with much potential
Vax, The Blue: World War I medal honoring high-powered computing.
Also (modern) a VAX made by Smurfs.
Vax Buildup: The result of not using the file delete command often
enough.
Vax of Life, The: Everything you ever wanted to know about the
birds and the bees (and the bugs in the VAX).
Vax Populi: The users
Vax-Cars: What GM doesn't make.
Vax-Free Bond: A special relationship with a non-VAX computer on
Wall Street.
Vax-mas: The day the VAX comes in
Vax-Ray: A high-energy screening to determine whether a user is
qualified to have a VAX I/O station on his floor.
Vax-Wagen: What everyone jumps on after the VAX is approved.
Vaxachusetts: DEC country.
Vaxcentuate: To underline the importance of the VAX.
Vaxcident: The spilling of coffee on a VAX terminal.
Vaxcillate: To oscillate between possible ways to administer VAX
training.
Vaxcine: An abbreviation for "I have seen the VAX!"
Vaxectomy: An operation on the Vax that will allow no more
sub-processes or off springs (TJP); What you wish the computer
would get when your program won't RUN (RTOM); Sterilization of the
vax by severing the data busses between the cpu and main memory
(MPOLEK); The act of being disusered (JSOTTILE); A surgical
procedure, performed by DEC, which allows coroutines to set a date,
make a rendezvous (with point of entry and exchange of vital data
flows), and ensure no side-effects will result.
Vaxecution: The denial of a user to future access to the VAX.
Vaxercise: An early morning workout on the VAX.
"Vaxi! Vaxi!": A cry heard and unheeded by cruising VAX personnel
as they go around the corridors, hailed by frantic users-to-be who
desire a high-tech ride on the VAX.
Vaxicination: A "preventive training" provided to potential users
of the VAX system to prevent software foul-ups other than
deliberate.
Vaxidermist: One who lives by the dictum, "You can take the VAX
and stuff it."
Vaxima: The height of ecstasy reached while computing on the VAX.
Also (archaic) Mother of VAX.
Vaximum: Keeping silent to the max about startup of the VAX.
Vaxing and Wailing: VAXing the the successful use of the VAX
during a full moon. Wailing is the less successful alternative
during other lunar phases.
Vaxis: What the world of computer rotates on.
Vaxle: That to which the wheels of the VAX are attached.
Vaxonerated: The honor of DEC.
Vaxtenuating Circumstances: The generic excuse used to explain
delays in delivery of the VAX.
Vaxtermination: The perennial zapping of mysterious files from the
VAX.
Vaxuum: A computer room without a VAX, abhorred by nature.
Vedi, Veni, Vaxi: That victory cry, "I saw. I conquered. The VAX
came!"