Software in a desktop computer that is used to access a remote computer. Windows Terminal and PuTTY are examples of terminal emulators for Windows and Mac examples are the Terminal app and iTerm2.
There's more to a terminal emulator than you'd think.
(1) Software in a user's computer that emulates a particular type of hardware terminal in order to access a server. When personal computers began to proliferate in the late 1980s, virtual terminals ...