!!Con West 2019 - Tabitha Sable: My, my, TTY!

Presented at !!Con West 2019: http://bangbangcon.com/west The TTY abstraction in modern UNIX-like systems is ancient, complex, and nearly invisible to newcomers. It just works, except when it doesn’t. I’ll lead a brief tour of the history behind the terminal windows we use each day, from paper teletypes and serial links to gnome-terminal, ssh, and screen.