The full stack of terminals explained

(ahmadawais.com)

24 points | by ludicrousdispla 8 hours ago ago

9 comments

  • mkeeter 5 hours ago ago

    > This is a clean separation, and clean separations are worth noticing. They tend to be load-bearing.

    oh hi Claude

  • beorno 3 hours ago ago

    I made a website to be the caniuse for terminals, and it also includes some history/fundamentals stuff. I thought it was useful background if you want to dive into the capabilities of modern terminal and trying to make sense of the alphabet soup that is SGR, OSC, ANSI, etc:

      https://terminfo.dev/fundamentals/tty-architecture
  • suzdude 5 hours ago ago

    Anyone else get hit by the (now seemingly obvious) kernel --> shell naming while reading this?

  • WD-42 5 hours ago ago

    > Three names, one thing. That’s why they blur together.

    Stopped reading here. This is an AI article.

    • GlobalChubby 4 hours ago ago

      Just to play devil's advocate: why? There's nothing a priori that suggests AI-written content is less pedagogically sound than human written content?

      • empthought 3 hours ago ago

        We don’t need aggregators like HN pitching AI-authored content, no matter how pedagogically sound. We can direct our own AIs to generate our own AI-authored content.

      • WD-42 3 hours ago ago

        Because the style is irritating, and as usual: if the author can't be bothered to write it, I can't be bothered to read it.

    • JSR_FDED 4 hours ago ago

      Thanks

  • paulddraper 5 hours ago ago

    > In POSIX.1-2024, the master side is called “manager” and the slave side is called “subsidiary.”

    Ah, who can forget the manager-subsidiary combo.