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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 device...
• exec /eg-zek'/ or /eks'ek/ vt., n. 1. [Unix: from `execute'] Synonym for chain, derives from the exec(2) call.
  2. [from `executive'] obs. The command interpreter for an OS (see shell)...
• exec: /eg-zek'/ vt., n. 1. [UNIX: from `execute'] Synonym for {chain}, derives from the `exec(2)' call.
  2. [from `executive'] obs. The command interpreter for an {OS} (see {shell})...
• We should all remember when Burroughs was using Virtual memory it was said to be some kind of technical joke.
  But later, hah, it was said to be ok. And it was because the word had come down from the mountain....
• virtual: [via the technical term `virtual memory', prob.
  from the term `virtual image' in optics] adj. 1....
• virtual adj. [via the technical term `virtual memory', prob.
  from the term `virtual image' in optics] 1. Common alternative to logical...
• TWENEX /twe'neks/ n. The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC -- the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 -- preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that i
  by those who were not ITS or WAITS partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek &...
• plumbing n. [Unix] Term used for shell code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under Unix, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• plumbing: [UNIX] n. Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...