May 15, 2003

glass tty

/glas T·T·Y/ or /glas ti´tee/ n.

[obs.] A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early ‘dumb’ version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control). See tube, tty; compare dumb terminal. See TV Typewriters (Appendix A) for an interesting true story about a glass tty.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:45 AM

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