virtual shredder
virtual shredder
The jargon equivalent of the bit bucket at shops using
IBM's VM/CMS operating system. VM/CMS officially
supports a whole bestiary of virtual card readers, virtual
printers, and other phantom devices; these are used to supply
some of the same capabilities Unix gets from pipes and
I/O redirection.
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