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In Linux, the TTY command prints the file name of the terminal connected to standard input.
Maybe the first "t" means "terminal", the second "t" means "to of connected to", but what does the letter "y" mean here?
showkey
Posted 2016-04-04T14:41:54.400
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The origin of TTY in Unix is from teletype terminals Source - Unix.SE
However for future reference, this probably is out of the scope of ELL (or even English Language and Usage) as it requires too much specialist knowledge.
Inazuma
Posted 2016-04-04T14:41:54.400
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5 Thus TeleTYpe. See also Wikipedia on the teletype or teleprinter.
1Answering a question that's out of scope is ... not that great an idea. – Nathan Tuggy – 2016-04-04T18:25:58.490
2http://askubuntu.com/questions/481906/what-does-tty-stand-for/482244 – Student – 2016-04-04T15:19:34.837
2-1 what makes you think this is a question about learning English? – M.A.R. – 2016-04-04T18:13:28.370
2I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this is veering right off the topic of learning the English language. – Nihilist_Frost – 2016-04-05T02:36:36.467
If asking about the meaning of ^^ is on topic, I don't see how asking about an actual English acronym, word or abbreviation is off topic! I actually learned some English (and history) from this question. @NathanTuggy et al.
– Alan Carmack – 2016-04-05T04:15:31.5631If you Google search "TTY", there are two Wikipedia articles at the very top that answer this question. This could have been answered with a bit of research. – user3169 – 2016-04-05T05:01:42.830