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At the risk of missing something completely obvious: where's the "emulator" part in it? What is it emulating? It looks like a terminal (no emulator) to me. Not
by rsp1984 2y ago
At the risk of missing something completely obvious: where's the "emulator" part in it? What is it emulating? It looks like a terminal (no emulator) to me. Not trolling, just trying to learn.
- paholg 2y agoLike all similar software, it's emulating a physical terminal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal.
- Evidlo 2y ago"Terminal" used to refer to a dumb computer that would send user input to a remote mainframe and receive instructions for drawing to the screen.
- 5e92cb50239222b 2y agoIf you can get through this, I highly recommend it. https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty
- pleasecalllater 2y agoThis is a terminal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal#/media/File:Televideo925Terminal.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal#/media/File:... The software is just emulating the terminal behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal
- rsp1984 2y agoThank you. I think it's a bit misleading then to call it a "terminal emulator". It's not really emulating one of those old boxes, is it? It's providing a text interface to a computer's functions. That's great but it's not emulating anything.
- debugnik 2y agoIt emulates them in the sense that they implement a virtual display and keyboard for the same wire protocols those old boxes used. Those protocols are mostly plain text, but also escape sequences for cursors, colors, layout, etc. Check out the VT100 sequences for example.