Terminal (telecommunication)
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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 Terminal to Comunicate with other computer via Phone line or Serial cable.
When the first Macintosh was released a program, called MacTerminal was used to comunicated with many computers including the IBM PC.
Dec Terminal were one of the first Terminal programs for the popular Altair.
