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)

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