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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.