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In the article the author states "Console - a system administrator’s terminal", which is true for consoles that are terminals, but untrue for consoles from the "old fashioned days" when mainframes were big; then, the console was a board with switches and lights used to indicate machine status and of course to boot the machine. It is where the operator 1st class (OP1) works. Next to the console, a teletype class device was used for maintenance and administration interaction. Later on, these two facilites merged into a kind of terminal which then was the console. Another term for the same device is BSP (Bedien- und Serviceprozessor), very famous term in Germany.

This is how a console looked like:
http://www.robotrontechnik.de/bilder/Grossrechner/ESER/EC1040/EC264...
(The EC2640 is the CPU + console of the EC1040 installation.)

IDBF05W MACHINE ERROR. RELOAD OC/EC :-)

I added this note because the author mentioned historical termini technici in order to make clear where the used words come from.

The article was interesting to read, allthough a professional UNIX / Linux user won't find anything particular new in it. But it's still worth to be mentioned as a good introduction and starting point to UNIX / Linux basics of efficiency, comfortability and flexibility - which you usually won't find in many GUI applications. If it's up to real work, CLI is your friend if you're smart enough. :-)