Question

what is teletype or tts?

Answer 1

"A teletype is a machine which looks like a typewriter but a little different. It is much larger and works on an engine."

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Answer 2

hm. I'm sorry, but I do not believe that is entirely correct. How is a teletype used in Unix then on a modern day machine?

Answer 3

Back in the day when computers were mainframes/minicomputers, teletypes were used for input/output.

Answer 4

A teleprinter (teletypewriter, Teletype or TTY)
USES: that can be used to communicate typed messages from point to point and point to multipoint over a variety of communication channels that range from a simple electrical connection, such as a pair of wires, to the use of radio and microwave as the transmission medium. They could also serve as a command line interface to early mainframe computers and minicomputers, sending typed data to the computer with or without printed output, and printing the response from the computer.

Answer 5

thanks!

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASR-33_Teletype

Served as one of the earlier computer terminals

Answer 7

TTY (teletype) is how people who are hard of hearing (HH or deaf) communicate over telephone using "text", instead of voice like the rest of us. Or, that is how they did it mostly before PC's, email, and IM text messaging became popular. It could be said that the deaf were the first people to use text messaging before the rest of us even knew what text messaging was - they just did it with a TTY