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I have started learning Linux now. When i was going through a basic book i came across Terminal Emulators where its not explained what exactly is it. Can some explain me about terminal Emulators.
The most basic explanation is that it provides access to your shell so you can interact with your system using the command line. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator for more info.
A terminal was/is a peice of hardware that basically consists of a monitor and a keyboard. It connected to a mainframe computer via RS-232 cable and as you probably guessed is a command line interface only. There are special commands to move the cursor, create bolt text, underline etc. A terminal emulator is an application that has the apperance of a terminal monitor screen and can be configured to emulate different hardware. The Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) model VT100 was very popular and many emulators are preconfigured to use its command set by default.
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A terminal emulator is the sort of terminal you get when you open a terminal from a graphical user interface (Gnome, KDE, ...). Those are distinguished from virtual consoles, which is what you get when you press Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6] (press Alt +F7 to get back to your GUI).
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