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Pty is a historical quirk: it stands for pseudo-tty, and tty is short for teletype. Actually there are a lot of things in old Unix that were influenced by the p
by jdougan 5y ago
Pty is a historical quirk: it stands for pseudo-tty, and tty is short for teletype. Actually there are a lot of things in old Unix that were influenced by the primary user interaction device being a slow (110 baud) printing terminal with no lowercase.