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The shell is my best friend. There is no better tool to deal with plain text.
There is a slight difference between the shell and the terminal: the first is an interpreter, the second is an emulator of the hardware they were using 50+ years ago (teletypes).
Coding for 20 years | Working for startups for 10 years | Team leader and mentor | More information about me: https://thevaluable.dev/page/about/
Twitter: @Cneude_Matthieu
Yes that's it. It was used in the 19th century to send messages, and since it was still widely used in the 60s, they plugged it to computers to send some input. Later they connected the output to a video terminal (cheaper than printing paper).
The terminal emulator is the emulation of both the teletype and the video terminal. It's a mess how it works under the hood because of this legacy. The shell itself is only the layer around the kernel which allows you to interpret your commands and communicate with the kernel.
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The shell is my best friend. There is no better tool to deal with plain text.
There is a slight difference between the shell and the terminal: the first is an interpreter, the second is an emulator of the hardware they were using 50+ years ago (teletypes).
Interesting Matthieu! Thanks for sharing!
Just to clarify, this is the teletype (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter) that you mentioned?
Yes that's it. It was used in the 19th century to send messages, and since it was still widely used in the 60s, they plugged it to computers to send some input. Later they connected the output to a video terminal (cheaper than printing paper).
The terminal emulator is the emulation of both the teletype and the video terminal. It's a mess how it works under the hood because of this legacy. The shell itself is only the layer around the kernel which allows you to interpret your commands and communicate with the kernel.