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What is the difference between terminal and tty?
I have seen these two terms use interchangeably. What do they represent?
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What's the relationship between multiplexer and terminal?
Recently, I learned there's this tmux tool.
in wiki, it defines tmux is a terminal multiplexer and I kinda get the idea of what it is capable of.
But I'm a little confused about the relationship ...
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What is the difference between terminal and bash? [duplicate]
When I open Terminal Window in Mac OS X, I can type bash and hit enter and I will see:
Last login: Fri Feb 20 14:30:56 on ttys000
Korays-MacBook-Pro:~ koraytugay$ bash
bash-3.2$
I can for example ...
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What's the difference between a console, terminal and command-line? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal?
My non-tech-savvy friends unanimously agree that console refers to hardware and terminal refers to software.
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Why are things like Gnome Terminal called "Terminal Emulators" instead of just "Terminals"?
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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