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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Technically a terminal is a physical crt or phosphate or whatever old kind of monitor they had back then, the dot matrix printer was a tty or teletype system, the terminal emulator is emulating the the old dumb analog monitor on top of the digital os not necessarily the tty although the terminal was doing the same function as the tty, so a raw terminal would be graphical… I guess we are going so far back the words are losing meaning but the terminal emulator which runs on top of the GUI classifies as part of the GUI as much as notepad or word

    • highball@lemmy.world
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      Look up what makes a GUI. Something can be graphical but not GUI. Something that is GUI is obviously graphical. “All thumbs are fingers, but not all fingers are thumbs”.