13 lines
2.4 KiB
HTML
13 lines
2.4 KiB
HTML
|
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
|||
|
|
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>console</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="considered-harmful.html" title="considered harmful"/><link rel="next" href="console-jockey.html" title="console jockey"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">console</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="considered-harmful.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="console-jockey.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="console"/><dt xmlns="" id="console"><b>console</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The operator's station of a <a href="../M/mainframe.html"><i class="glossterm">mainframe</i></a>. In
|
|||
|
|
times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike powers to
|
|||
|
|
anyone with fingers on its keys. Under Unix and other modern timesharing
|
|||
|
|
OSes, such privileges are guarded by passwords instead, and the console is
|
|||
|
|
just the <a href="../T/tty.html"><i class="glossterm">tty</i></a> the system was booted from. Some of
|
|||
|
|
the mystique remains, however, and it is traditional for sysadmins to post
|
|||
|
|
urgent messages to all users from the console (on Unix, /dev/console).
|
|||
|
|
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. On microcomputer Unix boxes, the main screen and keyboard (as
|
|||
|
|
opposed to character-only terminals talking to a serial port). Typically
|
|||
|
|
only the console can do real graphics or run
|
|||
|
|
<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="considered-harmful.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="console-jockey.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">considered harmful<75></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>console jockey</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|