PTY

Short for pseudoterminal, PTY is a text-based software user interface designed to replace the hardware terminal interfaces of the 1970s. The first pseudoterminal was released in 1983 as part of the BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) 4.2 operating system. One end of the channel is called the master or ptm, and the other is the slave or pts. The pts provides the pseudoterminal that acts exactly like a classic terminal and sends input data to the ptm. Output data is sent back from the ptm to the pts. For example, if you connect to a Linux machine over the Internet using SSH (Secure SHell), you're creating a pseudoterminal.

Computer abbreviations, Network terms, Pseudo, Ptm, Pts, Terminal, TLA, TTY