You should have a look at ZOC, what I think to be the best terminal emulation program available for the Mac. I use it everyday for my job. It has the ability to do direct communication with a serial port. Of course it does way more than just serial communication. ZOC is a professional SSH/telnet client and terminal emulator. May 18, 2020 CoolTerm is a simple serial-port terminal application (no terminal emulation) that is geared towards hobbyists and professionals with a need to exchange data with hardware connected to serial ports such as servo controllers, robotic kits, GPS receivers, microcontrollers, etc. Features include display of received data in text or hexadecimal format, support for multiple concurrent connection.
Serial Terminal For Mac
The HyperTerminal was an incredibly useful pre-installed Windows tool included before Windows 7. A darling of power users with hundreds of uses, these days it’s sadly gone. It’s no longer part of Microsoft’s vision for their operating system.
The problem is that plenty of guides, fixes and advice you wouldl find on the internet may still need the HyperTerminal to work. The good news is that there are plenty of great HyperTerminal alternatives for Windows 10 that are only a click away. We’ve rounded up some of the best ones you can try right away. Best of all, they’re all free.
What Was HyperTerminal?
A terminal program is a type of application that uses a text-based interface to allow users to access all sorts of services. A terminal is designed as a way to send commands to another computer system. So, unlike the command line program in Windows, a terminal isn’t exclusively designed to control your own local computer.
Using a terminal program, you can send low-level commands through a serial port or through a network connection. Services such as Telnet, were popular use of terminal software. It’s also possible to control certain devices to the serial port by using the terminal.
If You Only Need SSH, Read This First
One of the main reasons people used HyperTerminal in the past has been to make use of the Secure Shell (SSH) function. This is a protocol used to securely send commands over a network in text form and is a common power user requirement.
Microsoft cushioned the blow of removing Hyperterminal by building a secure shell command into the command line program that still comes with Windows. So, if all you need is secure shell functionality then there is no reason to look for HyperTerminal alternatives. The Windows command line already has Windows remote shell functionality.
With that small public service announcement out of the way, here are some of the best HyperTerminal alternatives for Windows 10.
Tera Term
TeraTerm is a completely free and Open Source (FOSS) terminal emulator that comes in at a very small size. It’s not just a generic terminal, but can emulate specific models of physical terminals, making it easy for people who know those terminals to keep going.
As far as we can tell, Tera Term is a feature-complete terminal emulator and even has some very nice “luxury” features. The menu system makes it pretty easy to configure it exactly the way you like.
As an Open Source package, you can be pretty sure that the community has done good quality of life work and that there’s no malware or privacy-infringing code in there. On the other hand, there’s no company or support department to help you if something goes wrong. So if you need a terminal emulator for mission-critical business reasons, you should obviously opt for a commercial solution instead.
PuTTy
Just as with Tera Term, PuTTy is another Open Source terminal program. Which means it has the same general caveats of any such program that doesn’t have paid support. This is also, strictly-speaking, a beta program given that the current version number is 0.73. That’s pretty much par for the course however, when it comes to Open Source applications.
In case you didn’t know, PuTTy is actually the most popular HyperTerminal alternative in the world. At least, it is if we go by download count.
As you might expect, the program itself is pretty good. It’s powerful without being completely inaccessible to newbies. It’s been in development since 1998, which means there are decades of lessons learned built into the application.
One particularly strong aspect of PuTTy is its wide support for various encryption standards. This includes public encryption keys and SFTP, making secure communications and file transfers a doddle.
KiTTY
Not everyone thinks that PuTTy is the bee’s knees, which is why the project forked into KiTTy. Based on the same source code as PuTTy, the people behind KiTTy have taken the software in a different direction. Over time, each terminal emulator has cultivated its own fans, so there’s no objective way to say that one is better than the other. How is KiTTy different? Glad you asked!
First of all, it seems that KiTTy is getting more development attention than PuTTy, but as with all open source projects that could have changed by the time you read this.
KiTTy exists because of user feature requests that just weren’t being put into PuTTy. For example, KiTTy has a portable app version, which means you can just take it along on a flash drive, moving from one computer to the next. It supports automatic logon scripts, supports background images or a transparent terminal window, and it can run locally saved scripts. That’s just a small sample of the long feature list KiTTy has included to please disgruntled PuTTy fans.
The downside is that KiTTy isn’t as lightweight and streamlined as PuTTy, which is why it still has plenty of fans. In the end the choice is down to which features you can or can’t live without.
SmarTTY
Let’s say you do mainly want an SSH solution, but you are a heavy user of this feature and need something more powerful and user-friendly than the Windows 10 native SSH interface. That’s where SmarTTY comes into play.
This isn’t an open source application, but it is free to use. Just remember that closed source applications might have privacy issues which we don’t know about, because no one but the developer knows what’s in the source code.
If that doesn’t bother you, then SmarTTY offers a very cool multi-tab, graphical SSH tool and is also perfectly capable of serial port functions and Telnet.
Are You Out There?
Apart from how useful a terminal emulator program can be, there’s something wonderfully nostalgic about staring at the infinite blackness of a terminal, with its lone blinking cursor. While it’s never possible to go back in time, we can at least pretend that those heady early days of computing are still with us. Just like the hacker elite we imagine we are.
This is a list of notable terminal emulators. Most used terminal emulators on Linux and Unix-like systems are GNOME Terminal on GNOME and GTK-based environments, Konsole on KDE, and xfce4-terminal on Xfce as well as xterm.
Character-oriented terminal emulators[edit]
Unix-like[edit]
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Command-line interface[edit]
- Linux console – implements a large subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 escape sequences.
The following terminal emulators run inside of other terminals, utilizing libraries such as Curses and Termcap:
- GNU Screen – Terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
- Minicom – text-based modem control and terminal emulation program for Unix-like operating systems
- tmux – Terminal multiplexer with a feature set similar to GNU Screen
Graphical[edit]
X11 and Wayland[edit]
Terminal emulators used in combination with X Window System and Wayland
- xterm – standard terminal for X11
- GNOME Terminal – default terminal for GNOME with native Wayland support
- guake – drop-down terminal for GNOME
- konsole – default terminal for KDE
- xfce4-terminal – default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support
- Terminator – written in Java with many novel or experimental features
- Terminology[1] – enhanced terminal supportive of multimedia and text manipulation for X11 and Linux framebuffer
- Tilda – a drop-down terminal
- Yakuake – (Yet Another Kuake) a drop-down terminal for KDE
- rxvt – lightweight terminal emulator
- aterm (from rxvt 2.4.8) created for use with the AfterStep window manager (no longer maintained)
- Eterm (from rxvt 2.21) created for use with Enlightenment
- mrxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created for multiple tabs and additional features (latest version released in 2008-09-10)
- urxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created to support Unicode, also known as rxvt-unicode
- Wterm – created for NeXTSTEP style window managers such as Window Maker
macOS[edit]
Terminal emulators used on macOS
- Terminal – default macOS terminal
- iTerm2 – open-source terminal specifically for macOS
- xterm – default terminal when X11.app starts
- ZTerm – serial line terminal
Apple Classic Mac OS[edit]
Microsoft Windows[edit]
- ConEmu – local terminal window that can host console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash)
- HyperACCESS (commercial) and HyperTerminal (included free with Windows XP and earlier, but not included with Windows Vista and later)
- mintty – Cygwin terminal
- Windows Console – Windows command line terminal
Microsoft MS-DOS[edit]
- Qmodem and Qmodem Pro
IBM OS/2[edit]
- ZOC – discontinued support for OS/2
Commodore Amiga[edit]
Commodore 64[edit]
Block-oriented terminal emulators[edit]
Emulators for block-oriented terminals, primarily IBM 3270, but also IBM 5250 and other non-IBM terminals.
Coax/Twinax connected[edit]
These terminal emulators are used to replace terminals attached to a host or terminal controller via a coaxial cable (coax) or twinaxial cabling (twinax). They require that the computer on which they run have a hardware adapter to support such an attachment.
- RUMBA 3270 and 5250
tn3270/tn5250[edit]
These terminal emulators connect to a host using the tn3270 or tn5250 protocols, which run over a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection.
- x3270 – IBM 3270 emulator for X11 and most Unix-like systems[2]
- c3270 – IBM 3270 emulator for running inside a vt100/curses emulator for most Unix-like systems[2]
Mac Terminal Serial Port
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Serial Port Terminal Software Mac Free
- ^Schroder, Carla (November 16, 2017). '5 Coolest Linux Terminal Emulators'. Linux.com.
- ^ ab'x3270'.
External links[edit]
- The Grumpy Editor's guide to terminal emulators, 2004
- Comprehensive Linux Terminal Performance Comparison, 2007
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