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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.
(1995-01-30)
Nearby terms: Virtual Reality Modeling Language « Virtual Sequential Access Method « virtual server « virtual shredder » Virtual Software Factory » Virtual Storage Access Method » Virtual Storage Extended
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