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Terminal is an application included with Apple's Mac OS X operating system, and is also present in OS X's progenitor, OPENSTEP and NEXTSTEP. It is a terminal emulator, common to Unix operating systems, that allows the user to interact with a computer through a command line interface.
The Terminal is often pointed to, to illustrate the difference between the "classic" Mac OS which was developed completely in-house at Apple and the newer Mac OS X which is based upon ideas from NEXTSTEP and a Unix-like operating system, namely, Darwin.
By default, the Terminal cannot execute UNIX X Window System applications. However, several options are available, including Apple's own X11.app, Fink, or XDarwin. More recently, the Xorg server provides upstream support for Mac OS X. This would enable the user to use any of the available ported terminal emulators (such as xterm). However, those who do not use the X Window System under Mac OS X very often may find the Terminal useful, as it conforms to Apple's human interface standards and requires no additional software.
External links
- Apple - Mac OS X - Features - Unix
- List of bash commands for the Terminal
"Terminal (application)"