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Examples of terminals emulated: added "925" to Televideo. This section needs cleaning to differentiate actual hardware terminals from pure software as described later in the article as "virtual terminals"
Examples of terminals emulated: The "Sun console" is really the Sun workstation console, which, at least when I was there, was implemented by the workstation's firmware, with an OS driver that called the firmware to display characters and processed input from the Sun keyboard. There aren't any Sun workstations any more, but that was originally Sun's main hardware business line. Put it in the same category as the Linux console.
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==Examples of terminals emulated==
Many terminal emulators have been developed for physical hardware terminals such as [[VT52]], [[VT100]], [[VT220]], [[VT320]], [[IBM 3270|IBM 3270/8/9/E]], [[IBM 5250]], [[IBM 3179G]], [[Data General]] D211, [[Hewlett-Packard]] HP700/92, Sperry/Unisys 2000-series [[Uniscope|UTS60]], Burroughs/Unisys A-series T27/TD830/ET1100, [[Applied Digital Data Systems|ADDS]] ViewPoint, [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]] console, AT386, SNI 97801, [[Televideo]] 925, and [[Wyse]] 50/60. Note the "Sun console" is not a literal terminal, but emulation of a System Service Processor (SSP), a "concentrator" or Comm/Terminal Server, such as a Cisco Access Server, to connect to the Sun device. Additionally, programs have been developed to emulate virtual terminals such as [[xterm]] and assorted console "terminals" (e.g.,such foras the [[Sun workstation]] console and the [[Linux console]]). Finally, some emulators simply refer to a set of standards, such as [[ANSI escape code|ANSI]]. Such programs are available on many platforms ranging from [[DOS]] and [[Unix]] to [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and [[macOS]] to embedded operating systems found in cellphones and industrial hardware.un console
 
== Implementation details ==