Why are things like Gnome Terminal called "Terminal Emulators" instead of just "Terminals"?
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What are they emulating that keeps them from just being terminals? What does a plain-old "terminal" look like, if they are just emulators?
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A terminal is the end of a line. So, back in the day when the computer was a mainframe serving many user accounts, what you'd be sitting at with your keyboard and display would be a terminal. A terminal emulator is when you're using a computer (a Tu…
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