| Terminal | A terminal was that what seemed like 30 kg piece of solid cast iron frame wrapped in cream-colour plastic case with a glass display and keyboard in front of you |
| Terminal Emulation | |
| Shell | A shell was a program running on the main computer interpreting your commands. |
| terminal, tty | text input/output environment |
| terminal emulator, pseudo-tty | – |
| console | physical terminal |
| shell | command line interpreter |
| pty | “pseudo terminal” |
| pts | “pseudo terminal slave”: login device when connecting through the network or a console (e.g. ssh). |
| tty | “teletype”: serial or console connections (text mode) |
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Wikipedia
English
curses (programming library)
ncurses
Terminfo
Text-based user interface
Deutsch
ncurses
Zeichenorientierte Benutzerschnittstelle
Pseudoterminal
man
pty
tty
ttyS
ttytype
terminfo, terminal capability data base
getty, set terminal mode
agetty, alternative Linux getty