greycat 1414095999 learn "tty" originally stood for teletype, a primitive keyboard+printer which was the forerunner of the ASCII terminal. Nowadays it is used generically to mean "some kind of terminal", usually a pseudoterminal (X terminal emulator, Linux console, etc.).
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Riviera 1417746458 learn "tty" originally stood for teletype, a primitive keyboard+printer which was the forerunner of the ASCII terminal. Nowadays it is used generically to mean "some kind of terminal", usually a pseudoterminal (X terminal emulator, Linux console, etc.). http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/