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The full stack of terminals explained

19 pointsby ludicrousdisplatoday at 7:31 PM4 commentsview on HN

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mkeetertoday at 11:04 PM

> This is a clean separation, and clean separations are worth noticing. They tend to be load-bearing.

oh hi Claude

suzdudetoday at 10:20 PM

Anyone else get hit by the (now seemingly obvious) kernel --> shell naming while reading this?

paulddrapertoday at 10:59 PM

> In POSIX.1-2024, the master side is called “manager” and the slave side is called “subsidiary.”

Ah, who can forget the manager-subsidiary combo.

WD-42today at 11:09 PM

> Three names, one thing. That’s why they blur together.

Stopped reading here. This is an AI article.