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What is meant by a "terminal window" in my browser?

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March 23, 2016

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March 23, 2016

It means "a program that runs a terminal emulator so you can type commands in, rather than click on stuff in a gui".

A slightly better phrase would be "command line".

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Thank you, Nic.  I googled it and apparently this is a term used for Mac's.  I have only used Windows my entire life.

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>I googled it and apparently this is a term used for Mac's. 

The built-in one is called terminal, and a lot of Atlassian's use Macs.  (I'm a Linux user mostly, but even there, the language is things like xTerm, Term, Terminal, iterm, terminator etc)

>I have only used Windows my entire life.

I'm sorry for your pain wink  .  Hopefully "command line" helped lead you to start -> run -> cmd

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