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Oct 1, 2015 at 17:22 comment added Dwight Spencer To add to @Gilles explanation, basically Windows/Dos's console is to UNIX's /dev/tty1 or Plan9's /dev/console. But historically meant the keyboard and mouse or stdin. While serial ports was over COM{1..4} or AUX, and parallel ports was over LPT{1-4}.
Jul 27, 2014 at 21:39 comment added Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' @noloader Windows's nul and console aren't related to Unix's /dev/null and /dev/console except in some indirect historical way. The names nul and console were inherited from CP/M (which didn't have directories); CP/M/DOS/Windows's nul means the same thing as unix's /dev/null but console under DOS and Windows means a serial port, not the console like on unix systems. If you run an application in Windows's POSIX subsystem (or in another POSIX implementation on top of Windows), you will get /dev/null, /dev/tty and /dev/console.
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Jul 26, 2014 at 16:55 history edited phemmer CC BY-SA 3.0
POSIX is an acronym, not code.
Jul 26, 2014 at 16:53 comment added cuonglm @noloader: Windows implement only the first version of POSIX standard. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
Jul 26, 2014 at 16:51 comment added user56041 I've seen nul and console on Windows, but I don't believe I've ever seen tty.
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