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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>box</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="boustrophedon.html" title="boustrophedon"/><link rel="next" href="boxed-comments.html" title="boxed comments"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">box</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="boustrophedon.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="boxed-comments.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="box"/><dt xmlns="" id="box"><b>box</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>A computer; esp. in the construction <span class="firstterm">foo box</span> where <span class="i">foo</span>
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is some functional qualifier, like <span class="firstterm">graphics</span>, or the name of an OS (thus, <span class="firstterm">Unix box</span>, <span class="firstterm">Windows
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box</span>, etc.) “<span class="quote">We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before
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handing it up to the mainframe.</span>” </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="boustrophedon.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="boxed-comments.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">boustrophedon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> boxed comments</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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