The full stack of terminals explained

suzdude

Anyone else get hit by the (now seemingly obvious) kernel --> shell naming while reading this?

paulddraper

> In POSIX.1-2024, the master side is called “manager” and the slave side is called “subsidiary.” Ah, who can forget the manager-subsidiary combo.

mkeeter

> This is a clean separation, and clean separations are worth noticing. They tend to be load-bearing. oh hi Claude

WD-42

> Three names, one thing. That’s why they blur together. Stopped reading here. This is an AI article.

beorno

I made a website to be the caniuse for terminals, and it also includes some history/fundamentals stuff. I thought it was useful background if you want to dive into the capabilities of modern terminal and trying to make sense of the alphabet soup that is SGR, OSC, ANSI, etc: https://terminfo.dev/fundamentals/tty-architecture