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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>.

During the 1990s, new operating systems like [[Windows]] and [[OS/2]] arrived, providing the technical background for more terminal emulators like [https://winworldpc.com/product/telix/100-for-windows Telix for Windows], [[ZOC|ZOC for OS/2]], or [[PuttyPuTTY]], which was initially released for Windows in 1998 and which (together with its derivates) is still one a very popular choice to this day<ref>[https://www.slant.co/topics/1552/~best-terminal-emulators-for-windows SSH Clients for Windows]</ref>.

Through the [[History_of_Linux|success of Linux]], especially running on data centers and cloud servers<ref>[https://www.debianadmin.com/powering-linux-in-the-data-center.html Powering Linux in the Data-Center]</ref>, the necessity of accessing remote computers through character based terminals remains. This is evident in the fact, that today lists of terminal emulators that could serve as alternative to the aforementioned [[PuttyPuTTY]] offers over 100 alternatives<ref>[https://alternativeto.net/software/putty/ Alternatives to Putty]</ref>.

==Examples of terminals emulated==