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Operating systems

Name	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Microsoft DOS	Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...	MAC OS Mac OS Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...	GNU/Linux	BSD	Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
aterm Aterm aterm is the AfterStep terminal emulator for the X Window System. Based on rxvt 2.4.8 , aterm is a color VT100 terminal emulator that supports basic pseudo-transparency....
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evilvte Evilvte evilvte is a light weight VTE based terminal emulator. It supports most VTE features, tabs, tab auto hide, easily switchable character encoding, and build time configurations Configuration is done by editing source code and recompilation....
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gtkterm Gtkterm gtkterm is a terminal emulator written with GTK+. Lightweight and simple, gtkterm is unfortunately moribund, with no commits since late 2004. The project's redirects to the German home page....
guake Guake Guake is a drop-down terminal for GNOME Desktop Environment. Like similar terminals, it is invoked with a single keystroke, and hidden by pressing the same keystroke again....
konsole Konsole Konsole is a free terminal emulator which is part of KDE Software Compilation. Konsole was originally written by Lars Doelle.The KDE applications Konqueror, Krusader, Kate, Konversation, Dolphin and KDevelop use Konsole to provide embedded terminal functionality.- Features :* Tabbed terminals...
Kuake Kuake Kuake is a KDE terminal emulator. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again....
mrxvt Mrxvt The mrxvt program is a terminal emulator for X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 compatible terminals.mrxvt is based on rxvt version 2.7.11 CVS , and features most of functionality of rxvt, with a few major enhancements...
Qodem Qodem Qodem is a text-based free software clone of the popular MS-DOS program Qmodem, updated for use on modern Unix-like operating systems. Its main features include Unicode support, multiple terminal emulations , file transfer protocols, keyboard macros, external scripts, and a dialing directory.Qodem...
rxvt Rxvt rxvt is a terminal emulator for the X Window System , originally written by Rob Nation and later extensively modified by Mark Olesen, who took over maintenance for several years...
rxvt-unicode Rxvt-unicode rxvt-unicode, commonly known as urxvt, is a color VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System. It was written by Marc Lehmann, who forked it from rxvt in November 2003...
terminal (XFCE) Terminal (Xfce) Terminal is Xfce's terminal emulator, replacing xterm as default. It takes advantage of Xfwm's built-in compositing to support true transparency....
Terminator Terminator (terminal emulator) Terminator is a GPL terminal emulator. It is available on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix X11 systems. Terminator will run on any modern POSIX system with Java 5 or later....
tilda Tilda (software) Tilda is a GTK+ terminal emulator. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, typically the tilde, and slide back up when the key is pressed again....
wterm Wterm Wterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It is a fork of rxvt, designed to be lightweight, but still full of features. Its appearance was designed for NeXTSTEP style window managers such as Window Maker....
xterm Xterm In computing, xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. A user can have many different invocations of xterm running at once on the same display, each of which provides independent input/output for the process running in it .xterm originated prior to the X Window System...
Yakuake YaKuake Yakuake is a KDE terminal emulator. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again....
Win32 console Win32 console Win32 console is a text user interface implementation within the system of Windows API, which runs console applications. A Win32 console has a screen buffer and an input buffer, and is available both as a window or in text mode screen, with switching back and forth available via Alt-Enter...
mintty MinTTY In computing, mintty is a free and open source terminal emulator for Cygwin, the Unix-like environment for Windows. It features a native Windows user interface and does not require an X server...
PuTTY PuTTY PuTTY is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client...
MacWise Macwise MacWise is a terminal emulation program for Macintosh computers. It was written by Rich Love.MacWise emulates ADDS Viewpoint, Wyse 50, Wyse 60, Wyse 370, Televideo TV 925, DEC VT100, VT220 and Prism terminals. Supports ANSI and SCO ANSI color. Esprit III color is also supported in Wyse 370...
Red Ryder Red Ryder (software) Red Ryder was the name of a well known communications and terminal emulation software program created for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. It was one of the first donationware programs to be distributed on the internet...
Terminal (OS X) Terminal (application) Terminal is a terminal emulator included in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It originated in Mac OS X's predecessors, NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface. By default it provides a bash shell, which allows the OS X user to...
ZTerm Zterm ZTerm is a shareware terminal emulator for Apple Macintosh computer systems. It was introduced in 1992 running on Macintosh Operating System 7 and has been updated to run on the latest version of Mac OS X....

Capabilities

Name	TERM	VT52 VT52 The VT52 was a CRT-based computer terminal produced by Digital Equipment Corporation introduced in September, 1975 . It provided a screen of 24 rows and 80 columns of text and supported all 95 ASCII characters as well as 32 graphics characters. It supported asynchronous communication at baud rates...	VT100 VT100 The VT100 is a video terminal that was made by Digital Equipment Corporation . Its detailed attributes became the de facto standard for terminal emulators.-History:...	VT220 VT220 The VT220 was a terminal produced by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1983 to 1987.-Hardware:The VT220 improved on the earlier VT100 series of terminals with a redesigned keyboard, much smaller physical packaging, and a much faster microprocessor...	UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...	256 colors	mouse tracking	OSC color palette	application keypad
rxvt Rxvt rxvt is a terminal emulator for the X Window System , originally written by Rob Nation and later extensively modified by Mark Olesen, who took over maintenance for several years...	rxvt
xterm Xterm In computing, xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. A user can have many different invocations of xterm running at once on the same display, each of which provides independent input/output for the process running in it .xterm originated prior to the X Window System...	xterm
Win32 console Win32 console Win32 console is a text user interface implementation within the system of Windows API, which runs console applications. A Win32 console has a screen buffer and an input buffer, and is available both as a window or in text mode screen, with switching back and forth available via Alt-Enter...
PuTTY PuTTY PuTTY is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client...	xterm

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