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This article will explain in detail what the linux terminal refers to. The editor thinks it is very practical, so I share it with you as a reference. I hope you can get something after reading this article.

In linux, the terminal is the console of linux, which is mainly used to let users input data to display their calculation results. The terminal receives keyboard input from the user and sends the input to the host system. The host system processes the user input and returns the results to the terminal, which can be divided into physical terminal and virtual terminal.

The operating environment of this tutorial: linux7.3 system, Dell G3 computer.

What is the linux terminal?

A terminal is an electronic computer or a computer system, which is mainly used to allow users to enter data and display their calculation results. The terminal receives keyboard input from the user and sends these inputs to the host system. The host system processes the user's keyboard input and commands, and then the output is returned and displayed on the terminal's screen.

The Linux terminal is the console of Linux, and we rely on various commands to deal with the kernel to complete our daily tasks.

In the early years, computers were huge and expensive, usually used only for scientific research, so it was impossible for a person to own a computer. However, there are many resources available to computers, and usually one person using one computer often results in a waste of resources, so multi-task and multi-user has become an important goal of computer use. Unix and Unix-like operating systems are developed for this purpose. Everyone uses keyboards and monitors to connect to computers in the computer room, while accessing computer resources without interfering with each other. Since there was no mouse in the early days, Linux terminals were done entirely by keyboards and monitors, a practice that continues to this day.

Terminals are classified as follows:

Physical terminal: the physical terminal corresponds to the serial port of the computer, and each serial port corresponds to a physical terminal.

Virtual terminal: with the continuous development of graphical interface and network, the terminal also has a new definition. The terminal that the user accesses through the Internet or the terminal started by the graphical interface is a virtual terminal.

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