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Terminal Emulation
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Terminal emulation programs allow you to access a mainframe computer or bulletin board though your local computer. Get an Introduction to Terminal Emulation with details and links about using different kinds of Emulators.
Terminal emulation is the ability to make one computer terminal, typically a PC, appear to look like another, usually older type of terminal so that a user can interact with that system directly. This page defines terminal emulation, the ability of a workstation or personal computer to appear to be a dumb (nonprogrammable) terminal. Through the 1980s, a lot of the 3270 dumb terminals on the end of coax connections changed over to PCs supported with terminal emulation.