terminal (telecommunication)

For other uses of the word terminal, see the disambiguation page. In the context of telecommunications, a terminal is a device which is capable of communicating over a line. Examples of terminals are telephones, fax machines, 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.
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