On: What is the difference between a terminal, a shell...

[TacticalCoder]

Call me newschool or oldschool or whatever but...

    ... $  tty
    /dev/tty1     <- that's sorta a modern "tty"


    ... $  tty
    /dev/pts/17   <- that's a pseudo-tty

I like this one:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/pty-vs-tty

[abnry → TacticalCoder]

I guess my understanding is that a tty must involve a device driver for an actual piece of hardware. A pty is all software, implemented as a feature of the kernel any application can ask for.

[krackers → abnry]

But on modern linux even the tty is a "virtual tty". Is the device driver part implicit in the kernel (which dumps out the contents to frame buffer)?