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== Emulators: From Hardware to Software ==

As prices of memory and computation fell, the local computing power increased, making the terminals themselves more powerful. In this process, initially, emulation of the functions of a terminal was a process that played out between terminal manufacturers, where the manufacturers of one type of terminal emulated the functions of another manufacturer. For example a Wyse-60 terminal offered a total of 15 so called "Personalities", among them those of competitors like [[Televideo]]-952925, [[Digital_Equipment_Corporation|DEC]] [[VT100]] and [[IBM 3101]].<ref>[http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/wyse/WY-60/Wyse_WY60_Users_Guide.pdf Wyse 60 User's Guide, page 2-5]</ref>

When personal computers became ubiquitous in the 1980s, they offered the option of running software on the user's computer personal computer, providing an opportunity to replace the expensive and space consuming hardware terminals with something that had additional functions<ref>[https://www.emtec.com/zoc/terminal-emulator.html Emulating a Terminal on Personal Computers]</ref>. Immediately software became available, that could emulate the functions of the hardware terminals on a PC. Examples of such software for [[DOS]] were [[Telix]] or Telemate, which was published in 1988 and could emulate a DEC VT102 terminal <ref>[http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Telemate Telemate Wiki]</ref>.