måndag 25 oktober 2004 12:54 skrev Fergus Wilde:
On Sunday 24 October 2004 21:27, Allen wrote:
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Wed, 13 Oct 2004, by gorebofh@comcast.net: From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
console
1. The operator's station of a {mainframe}. In times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike powers to anyone with fingers on its keys. Under {Unix} and other modern {time-sharing} {operating system}s, such privileges are guarded by passwords instead, and the console is just the {tty} the system was booted from. Some of the mystique remains, however, and it is traditional for {sysadmin}s to post urgent messages to all users from the console (on Unix, /dev/console).
2. On {microcomputer} {Unix} boxes, the main screen and keyboard (as opposed to character-only terminals talking to a {serial port}). Typically only the console can do real graphics or run {X}. See also {CTY}.
From what I'm reading, you can pretty much call any Linux or UNIX machine a terminal or Console, as you're using the keyboard too human thing in the first part of this, or a cnosole, since you can run X on it then right?
Yes, that clears it up nicely. You should be considering a career as a lexicographer.
The words predate the display...