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