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  1. What does "TTY" stand for? - Ask Ubuntu

    TTY was the device name for terminals on the PDP-7 and PDP-11 that Unix originated on, it probably went back to the PDP-1 and who knows what before that. So when they started …

  2. What is a tty, and how do I access a tty? - Ask Ubuntu

    A tty, short for teletype and perhaps more commonly called a terminal, is a device which lets you interact with the system by sending and receiving data, such as commands and the output …

  3. Why does my question have 2(Now Three) close vote? (What does …

    I think we should edit the question to be more generic, I.e. "what is a tty" vs " what does tty mean". As Braiam points out, the question is really close to being an English question.

  4. command line - Understanding "tty" and "ttyS"? - Ask Ubuntu

    Jul 4, 2022 · It can be treated as a normal tty device, except that it won't work until one of the other tty%d devices has been initialized and assigned as console. ttyS%d are hardware serial …

  5. What is tty7/tty2 in the commandline? - Ask Ubuntu

    Jul 12, 2022 · The name of TTY actually comes from the old days of computers: then computers even had teletypewriters as terminal, so you could see the output of programs printed (tty = …

  6. What's the difference between Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F3?

    Where you can use another tty to start, stop a service or do some kind of command line instructions, or do something in mysql. same goes for analyzing CPU usages on your system: …

  7. Revision - Ask Ubuntu

    What does "TTY" stand for? On the Wikipedia's article on terminals under the hard copy terminals section of the article it says this "Early user terminals connected to computers were …

  8. Trending 'tty' questions - Ask Ubuntu

    What does "TTY" stand for? On the Wikipedia's article (Computer terminal) under the hard copy terminals section of the article it says this "Early user terminals connected to computers were …

  9. Trending 'tty' questions - Page 1 - Ask Ubuntu

    What does "TTY" stand for? On the Wikipedia's article (Computer terminal) under the hard copy terminals section of the article it says this "Early user terminals connected to computers were …

  10. what does the -aux option of ps stand for? - Ask Ubuntu

    They all have a meaning, for example -v means "Verbose" -l means "List" The ps command lists all running processes, but if you pass it the -aux option, it displays processes from all users, …