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virtual shredder
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virtual shredder /n./ The jargonic 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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