On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 00:59:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > When people talk about a serial console they are talking about connecting a > Debian PC to a device with a parallel, wired cable to a parallel port or an > adaptor on a PC and emulating this console thing with software? > Like a telnet connection?
Originally, a teletype or a terminal would have been connected to the serial port. That would have been how you accessed the system. As terminals stopped being common, the common replacement for a terminal would be a PC running a terminal emulator. If that PC is running Linux, then minicom would be a common choice for the terminal emulator. It's designed for connecting to serial ports (with settings for changing the baud rate and so on). There are a few others as well.
