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The role of Termcap in contemporary Unix-style systems is the same as it always has been: it provides a library and database allowing software to adapt to the varying capabilities of different terminals.
These terminals can be physical (connected to a serial port, typically) or virtual, provided by any one of a number of terminal emulators (the console on ...
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Erm. I think here are a few misunderstandings at work.
Termcap is a descriptional database about terminal features (*1), not device configurations.
In sense of Unix terminals aren't devices, but something connected to a device. In a more general sense, Unix-devices are (*2) interfaces that can be accessed using OS measures.
It may be this basic mixup ...
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