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Guy Harris (talk | contribs) →Emulators: From Hardware to Software: There are two types of terminal emulators - local ones that act like terminals attached to the machine on which they run, using pseudo-terminals, and remote ones that use a serial line, special hardware device, or network connection to connect to another machine. This should talk about both; add a paragraph about workstations with local terminal emulators. Use citation templates. Remove irrelevant paragraph about physical terminals. |
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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 [[PuTTY]], 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>{{cite web |url=https://www.slant.co/topics/1552/~best-terminal-emulators-for-windows |title=SSH Clients for Windows}}</ref>.
Through the [[History_of_Linux|success of Linux]], especially running on data centers and cloud servers,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.debianadmin.com/powering-linux-in-the-data-center.htm|title=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 [[PuTTY]] offers over 100 alternatives.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://alternativeto.net/software/putty/ |title=Alternatives to Putty}}</ref>{{dubious|poor source usage for putty}}
==Examples of terminals emulated==
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