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In the context of Telecommunication s, a terminal is a device which is capable of communicating over a line. Examples of terminals are Telephone s, Fax Machine s, and network devices - printers, work stations, routers in a VoIP network. Many computers use a serial access program to communicate with other computers via Telephone Line or serial cable, thus emulating a Computer Terminal . HyperTerminal is the most widely distributed Terminal Emulator , if not the most widely used. When the first Macintosh was released, a program called MacTerminal was used to communicate with many computers, including the IBM PC . Dec Terminal was one of the first Terminal programs for the popular Altair . |
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