Terminal emulator

A terminal emulator, or terminal application, is a computer program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a shell or text terminal, the term terminal covers all remote terminals, including graphical interfaces. A terminal emulator inside a graphical user interface is often called a terminal window.

Thomas Gainsborough's Cottage Door works

Thomas Gainsborough was the first British artist to employ cottages as a major subject, in what has become known as his "Cottage Door" paintings, painted during the final decades of his life; and was in the vanguard of a late 18th century fad of interest

Tarakaniv fortress, Ukraine

Tarakaniv Fort is a 19th-century fortress located next to a Tarakaniv village, Dubno district of Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. It was commissioned and built by Alexander II of the Russian Empire and can be found next to Lviv-Kyiv Highway M06 on the right bank of

Echo (computing)

In telecommunications, echo is the local display of data, either initially as it is locally sourced and sent, or finally as a copy of it is received back from a remote destination. Local echo is where the local sending equipment displays the outgoing sent

Hexagonal tortoise problem

The hexagonal tortoise problem was invented by Korean aristocrat and mathematician Choi Seok-jeong, who lived from 1646 to 1715. It is a mathematical problem that involves a hexagonal lattice, like the hexagonal pattern on some tortoises' shells, to the

Giovanni di Stefano (sculptor)

Giovanni di Stefano was an Italian bronze-caster, engineer, and sculptor. Baptized 20 June 1443, he was the son of Stefano di Giovanni

Seventh Edition Unix terminal interface

The Seventh Edition Unix terminal interface is the generalized abstraction, comprising both an application programming interface for programs and a set of behavioural expectations for users, of a terminal as historically available in Seventh Edition Unix

Terminal capabilities

In computing and telecommunications, the capabilities of a terminal are various terminal features, above and beyond what is available from a pure teletypewriter, that host systems can make use of. They are (mainly) of control codes and escape codes that

Pyridopyrimidine

Pyridopyrimidine is an organic hetero bicyclic chemical compound consisting of pyridine ring fused orthogonally at any position to a pyrimidine ring

Crouch Hill, Banbury

Crouch Hill is a partly artificial hill one mile to the south-west of Banbury Church in Banbury, Oxfordshire, in the United Kingdom. The top of the hill, which is a cone in shape, is the artificial part, as examined by antiquarian digs in the 19th

Najib Kilani

Naguib al-Kilani was an Egyptian poet and novelist