If you think about it, it is no weirder than Linux users talking about TTYs when no one has connected an actual teletype to a Linux machine other than for a lau

If you think about it, it is no weirder than Linux users talking about TTYs when no one has connected an actual teletype to a Linux machine other than for a laugh. The basic IO device becomes an abstraction that hangs around. Fun fact: you also boot Linux on zSeries by feeding a kernel image into a virtual punch card reader!