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MacWise
Carnation Software
MacWise emulates ADDS Viewpoint, Wyse 50, Wyse 60, Wyse 370, Televideo TV 925, DEC VT100, VT220, and Prism terminals. Supports ANSI and SCO ANSI color. Esprit III color is also supported in Wyse 370 mode. MacWise allows a Macintosh to be used as a terminal, connected to a host computer directly, by modem, local area network, or over the Internet with telnet or ssh secure shell. The emulators support video attributes such as dim, reverse, underline, 132-column modes, protected fields, and graphic characters sent from the host computer, as well as enhanced Viewpoint mode. Features include a phone list and dialer for modems, on-screen programmable function keys, connection scripts, and more. Works with desktop Macs, MacBooks and PowerBook. You can scroll back to the past 50 pages of data. MacWise remembers the last 50 pages that appear on your screen, regardless of whether the data has scrolled across the screen or the screen has cleared.Starting Price: $95 per user one-time payment -
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Byobu
Byobu
It was originally designed to provide elegant enhancements to the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen, for the Ubuntu server distribution. Byobu now includes an enhanced profile, convenient keybindings, configuration utilities, and toggle-able system status notifications for both the GNU Screen window manager and the more modern Tmux terminal multiplexer, and works on most Linux, BSD, and Mac distributions. Byobu includes an enhanced profile, configuration utilities, and system status notifications for the GNU screen window manager as well as the Tmux terminal multiplexer. Byobu is developed and released as free software under the GPLv3.Starting Price: Free -
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TTWin 4
Turbosoft Pty Ltd
TTWin 4 is a fully featured, secure terminal emulation solution designed for Windows operating systems. With assisted migration, support for more than 80 emulations, round-the-clock support, flexible licensing, automated processing, and more, TTWin 4 is one of the world’s most popular terminal emulation solutions for Windows devices. It supports systems such as IBM, OpenVMS, Unix, HP NonStop, Unisys, Wyse, and many more, giving organizations a wide range of host connectivity options from a single terminal emulator. TTWin delivers secure terminal emulation with support for SSH, including FIPS 140-2, Telnet with SSL3/TLS 1.0–1.3/SSH Tunnel, and SFTP. It is a solution that includes scripting, file transfer, smart macros, full keyboard remapping, extensive language and character set support, DBCS support, and much more. Built for modern Windows environments, TTWin is available in native 64-bit and 32-bit versions for Windows 10 and Windows 11. -
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TTerm for Linux
Turbosoft Pty Ltd
TTerm for Linux is a native Linux terminal emulator designed for Linux desktop systems and devices. It delivers a high degree of configurability, session control, screen-enhancing capabilities, productivity tools, and one of the widest ranges of terminal coverage available in a single package. Built for Linux and explicitly supported for Ubuntu, SUSE, OpenSUSE, Red Hat, and CentOS distributions, TTerm for Linux helps users connect to a broad range of host systems without needing to switch products for different emulations. It includes more than 80 terminal emulations and supports terminals and host manufacturers such as ANSI, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Unix, Siemens, Stratus, Televideo, Unisys, Wyse, DEC, Tandem / HP NonStop, and more. TTerm for Linux ships with industry-standard encryption and supports SSH, Telnet, Telnet via SSL2 / SSL3 / TLS tunnel, Telnet via SSH tunnel, serial connections, HP Network Services Virtual Terminal, and IPv6. -
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TTerm for iPad
Turbosoft Pty Ltd
TTerm for iPad is an enterprise-grade terminal emulation range for iPad devices, building on the proven quality, accuracy, and range of emulations that the Windows product TTWin is renowned for. It provides a range of high-quality terminal emulation apps for iPad, each differing only in the terminals it supports, so organizations can choose the version that best matches their host connectivity needs. TTerm provides secure, robust communications to Unix hosts over SSH and Telnet, while TTerm Plus adds support for IBM AIX terminals, Wyse series terminals, and ADM 11 emulation. TTerm 3270 supports IBM 3270 and Fujitsu 6681 terminal emulation for IBM host connectivity, and TTerm 5250 supports IBM 5250 terminal emulation for AS/400 and iSeries connectivity. TTerm Pro provides the maximum terminal coverage, with support for more than 80 different emulations, including all those in TTerm, TTerm Plus, TTerm 3270, and TTerm 5250. -
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TTWinCE
Turbosoft Pty Ltd
TTWinCE is terminal emulation tool developed specifically for the handheld and Windows-based terminal market. It is designed for embedded systems, thin clients, portable devices, and small form factor devices that require host connectivity, and it excels in barcode scanning and warehousing-type applications. TTWinCE expands the use of Windows CE or Windows Mobile devices by giving them access to host systems, helping organizations connect mobile and compact devices to enterprise environments. The underlying emulation technologies behind TTWinCE are the same high-quality, robust technologies powering TTWin, the flagship terminal emulator that has undergone continuous development and refinement since 1993. TTWinCE supports more than 80 different emulations, giving users complete connectivity from one product. It includes support for the built-in scanners that come with many handheld devices, making it practical for warehouse, inventory, logistics, and data capture workflows. -
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Flynet Viewer TE
Flynet
Flynet Viewer™ TE (Terminal Emulation) provides a browser based, terminal emulator to access key business systems. Access Mainframe, iSeries, Unix, VMS or MultiValue systems, on any device with zero client software. The terminal emulator is installed in a server environment, either on-premise or in the cloud, and centrally managed via the Flynet Viewer administration centre. Flynet Viewer works on all browsers and devices with no Java or ActiveX plugins. Flynet Viewer has all the features you would expect in an enterprise terminal emulator, including client and server-side macro creation, file transfer, single sign-on, MFA and keyboard remapping. Flynet Viewer Terminal Emulation provides the same level of functionality that is associated with a full fat desktop Terminal Emulation client but is delivered over the web and served up via a browser. Flynet Viewer Terminal Emulation will run on any device regardless of operating system or indigenous browser. -
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HostAccess
Perforce
HostAccess is PC terminal emulation software. It offers a suite of terminal emulation tools for Microsoft Windows users. This allows secure access to various platforms, including Linux, Unix, IBM, Windows, etc. The main usage of the HostAccess is to connect to PICK (multivalue) system, such as UniVerse, UniData, D3, ONware, etc., and use own package of programs written in PICK Basic. These programs provide APIs for data exchange and expansive GUI capabilities. Produce reports quickly and integrate data with Windows applications. Connect to multiple systems within one integrated environment. HostAccess offers all the key terminal emulation software features you need in a single page. So, whether you’re looking for asynchronous/synchronous connections, server-based administration, concurrent users, or multiple session access, HostAccess is an ideal solution for you. -
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GNOME Terminal
GNOME
Terminal is a terminal emulator application for accessing a UNIX shell environment which can be used to run programs available on your system. Terminal supports escape sequences that control cursor position and colors. A terminal is a text input point in a computer that is also called the Command Line Interface (CLI). IBM 3270, VT100 and many others are hardware terminals that are no longer produced as physical devices. To emulate these terminals, there are terminal emulators. Any input entered in the Terminal to be executed is referred to as a command. You can run both command line and graphical user interface (GUI) programs from the terminal. If you have a program that ends abruptly without any warning or error, you may want to run it in Terminal. This will allow the program to output any error or debugging messages to the Terminal window. This information can be helpful when filing a bug report. -
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Yakuake
KDE
Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Smoothly rolls down from the top of your screen. Tabbed interface, configurable dimensions and animation speed, skinnable, sophisticated D-Bus interface. After Yakuake has started you can click on configure Yakuake by clicking on the Open Menu button (middle button on the bottom right hand side of the interface) and select Configure Shortcuts to change the hotkey to drop/retract the terminal automatically, by default it is set to F12. While most configuration options can be changed from Yakuake GUI, there are some options only accessible from modifying the configuration file. Yakuake allows to control itself at runtime by sending the D-Bus messages. Thus it can be used to start Yakuake in a user defined session. You can create tabs, assign names for them and also ask to run any specific command in any opened tab or just to show/hide Yakuake window. -
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Ivanti Terminal Emulation
Ivanti
Terminal Emulation extends your enterprise systems to warehouse workers’ mobile devices. Add barcode scanning, optimize with automation scripts, even add voice, all without modifying your host system. Boost your perfect order rate with Terminal Emulation. -
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Jolly Giant
Jolly Giant
Reliable, fast, efficient and secure Windows® O/S to IBM mainframe and AS/400 connectivity solutions and support, now with web and mobile interface options. Using TCP/IP and the Winsock interface, this application allows you to quickly connect to your IBM mainframe over LAN and dialup connections. QWS3270 Secure is a 3270 emulation application that allows PCs to connect to SSL enabled IBM mainframes over a secure TCP/IP connection. Using TCP/IP and the Winsock interface, this application allows you to quickly connect to your A/S400 over LAN and dialup connections. WIRE offers a web based modernization platform to enhance and improve the user interfaces of mainframe applications and deliver them to web and mobile platforms, -
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Stromasys
Stromasys
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Entire Connection
Software AG
Terminal emulation software that connects Windows® users to applications on the mainframe, UNIX®, Linux®, OpenVMS, and BS2000 platforms. Available for Natural on the mainframe. Connect thousands of concurrent Microsoft® Windows® users to applications running on the mainframe, UNIX, Linux, OpenVMS, and BS2000 platforms with highly scalable terminal emulation software, Entire Connection. Protect your application from desktop access by requiring a user ID and password to open a terminal session with Entire Connection. Implement SSO by storing the host user credentials encrypted in the share file and using the Entire Connection script language to log onto the host. -
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NetTerm
NetTerm
InterSoft International, Inc. produces award winning products designed to run on Microsoft Windows based workstations, allowing connectivity to IBM, UNIX, Windows and VMS based host computers. Our products are used worldwide by individuals and companies to meet their client / server needs. The robust nature of NetTerm allows it to be used by the military, IBM, federal courts, National Institutes of Health, public libraries, automobile dealerships and thousands of individuals requiring access to Internet accounts, public library systems and their database connectivity requirements. Professionals within the medical, financial and law related industries use NetTerm to search diverse databases located all over the world. The award winning NetTerm is a robust, configurable terminal emulator designed for Internet and intranet connections with support for Telnet, rlogin, dialup, and other connection protocols. -
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FlexTerm
FlexTerm
FlexTerm is written entirely in C# .NET, providing a new user interface that is long overdue for the terminal emulation community. The user interface utilizes the modern ribbon command bar to organize the program's features into a series of tabs at the top of the window. This increases discover-ability of features and functions, enables quicker learning of the program, and makes users feel more in control of their experience with the program. The ribbon replaces both the traditional menu bar and toolbars and is now fully customizable, allowing users to create their own custom tabs and tab groups. A FlexTerm workspace can consist of a single session, or any number of sessions, which may be docked and displayed as tabs and/or floating. Sessions within each workspace can be easily arranged using drag-and-drop functionality. -
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Guake Terminal
Guake Terminal
Imagine you are working in your favorite text editor and want to execute some commands, like execute the unit test of your code, check a man page, or edit some configuration file. You can do it at lightning speed without leaving your keyboard. Just press your predefined "Show Guake" hotkey, execute your command, and repress it to hide the terminal and go back to your work. Guake supports Multimonitor setup. Open it on the monitor where your mouse is, or in a dedicated screen. Use Several named tabs, with names automatically set from the running command, or easily customized. Start Guake automatically at login, and define a script that will be executed on Guake launch, in order to configure Guake tabs.Starting Price: Free -
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HCL ZIE
HCL Software
Time-Tested Emulator of choice by Global Mainframe Customers. Extend mission critical terminal applications to the web, mobile or as APIs without touching the existing application. HCL ZIE for Transformation extends mission-critical terminal applications to the web, mobile, or as standard SOAP or RESTful web services without touching the existing application. No rewriting, refactoring, or access to application source code is required. Reduce training costs, increase end user productivity with improved navigation and usability, and eliminate data entry errors. ZIE for Transformation tunable default rendering and screen customization get all the screens of your existing application rendered with a new, intuitive user interface. Deploy apps to web, portal, and Eclipse RCP runtime environments, and allow access by a large variety of web browsers, including mobile. -
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Jubilant Terminal Emulator
Flynet
Jubilant Terminal Emulator provides a browser based, terminal emulator to access key business systems. Access Mainframe, iSeries, Unix, VMS or MultiValue systems, on any device with zero client software. The terminal emulator is installed in a server environment, either on-premise or in the cloud, and centrally managed via the Jubilant administration centre. Jubilant works on all browsers and devices with no Java or ActiveX plugins. Jubilant has all the features you would expect in an enterprise terminal emulator, including client and server-side macro creation, file transfer, single sign-on, MFA and keyboard remapping. -
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IBM Personal Communications is a host communication and terminal emulation package for Microsoft Windows. It provides a platform for traditional access to data and applications on different host systems, featuring virtual terminal emulation and Systems Network Architecture application support. Now with full 64-bit architecture, IBM Personal Communications supports host terminal emulation, client/server applications, and connectivity workflows for organizations that still depend on host systems. It is a component of IBM Host Access Client Package and IBM Host Integration Solution, helping users connect Windows desktops to enterprise host environments. It includes 3270 and 5250 virtual terminal emulation options, FTP client integration for file transfer, SNA application support, TCP/IP connectivity, Azure Virtual Desktop support, and Microsoft Office integration. IBM documentation describes Personal Communications as a full-function emulator package.
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PowerTerm WebConnect HostView
Ericom Software
In today's economy, one of the best ways for an organization to emerge as productive and agile is to optimize their IT resources. Ericom helps organization achieve this with PowerTerm® WebConnect HostView web-to-host emulation. Leverage the benefits of PC-client access software and server-based computing to take legacy assets to a new level. Centrally manage configuration and software updates - save on time and administrative resources. Increase productivity; enable anytime, anywhere access to business-critical applications using a standard web browser, regardless of the user's physical location. Reduce costs associated with individual licensing, maintenance, support and updates. SSL, SSH, SFTP, Active Directory and LDAP integration, Single Sign-On, authentication (including Kerberos), RADIUS, RSA® SecurID® and SecurEnvoy® SecureAccess and SecurICE two-factor authentication support, and more. -
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Rocket Secure Host Access
Rocket Software
Rocket® Secure Host Access is a security-first terminal emulation solution designed to protect access to critical host and mainframe applications. It extends modern identity and access management (IAM) controls directly to green screen environments. The platform enables phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication to reduce credential-based threats. Rocket Secure Host Access supports compliance with regulations such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and DORA. It works across desktop, web, and hybrid environments for flexible deployment and consolidated ongoing administration. Strong encryption standards like TLS 1.3 and SSH help safeguard sensitive data. The solution strengthens enterprise security without disrupting existing workflows. -
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ConEmu
ConEmu
ConEmu-Maximus5 aims to be handy, comprehensive, fast and reliable terminal window where you may host any console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash). As Windows console window enhancement (local terminal emulator), ConEmu presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications (like PuTTY for example) as one customizable tabbed GUI window with various features. ConEmu starts a console program in a hidden console window, and provides an alternative customizable GUI window with various features. Smooth and friendly window resizing; tabs for editors, viewers, panels and consoles. Run simple GUI apps like PuTTY in tabs. Windows 7 Jump Lists and Progress on Taskbar buttons. Easily run old DOS applications (games) in Windows 7 or 64-bit OS. Thumbnails and tiles in Far Manager. Normal, maximized and full screen graphical window modes. -
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TTerm Connect
Turbosoft
Turbosoft's terminal emulation software supports over 80 different emulations for systems such as IBM, HP, OpenVMS, Unix, HP NonStop, Unisys, Wyse & more. Choose from TTerm Connect, our web-based HTML5 offering, TTWin4 for Windows desktops, TTerm for Linux, or, for developers integrating terminal emulation, TTerm for .NET. TTerm Connect, our web-based terminal emulator offers flexible, powerful terminal emulation with nothing more than a web browser. TTerm Connect offers all the features you would expect from a desktop terminal emulator in a lightweight web application. Centrally configured and managed, TTerm Connect requires no client-side installation and can be deployed with its own web client or integrated with your existing website. Any host, any device. Available for any modern web browser and client device and with options for Windows or Linux based servers. Flexible & capable of servicing the terminal emulation needs of thousands of concurrent users. -
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WoTerm
aoyiduo
A powerful open source cross-platform security terminal simulation software, it supports SSH/SFTP/TELNET/RDP/VNC and other mainstream protocols. Support multiple key authentication methods, support SFTP session data backup and synchronization, support multiple sets of skin interface, support tunnel management, support script design, support multiple labels and floating Windows, support administrator mode, support 4K remote desktop, compatible with various VNC remote desktop, support session group management. -
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Ivanti
Ivanti
Ivanti offers integrated IT management solutions designed to automate and secure technology across organizations. Their Unified Endpoint Management platform provides intuitive control from a single console to manage any device from any location. Ivanti’s Enterprise Service Management delivers actionable insights to streamline IT operations and improve employee experiences. The company also provides comprehensive network security and exposure management tools to protect assets and prioritize risks effectively. Trusted by over 34,000 customers worldwide, including Conair and City of Seattle, Ivanti supports secure, flexible work environments. Their solutions enable businesses to boost productivity while maintaining strong security and operational visibility. -
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Konsole
KDE
Konsole is also integrated into multiple other KDE Applications making it easier to reach and more convenient. For example, KDevelop, Kate and Dolphin all use Konsole as an integrated terminal emulator. Want to make Konsole better? Consider getting involved in Konsole development and help us make Konsole the best terminal emulator!
