virtual shredder

2 definitions found

virtual shredder - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-01-30)
  

virtual shredder - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.