Do terminal TTYs for iOS and macOS exist?
TTYs exist and operate in Mac OS X and macOS just as they do in any other UNIX or UNIX-like operating system. When macOS boots, the TTY that inits to subsequently load the GUI is always console. Subsequent TTYs opened from Terminal.app or other emulators are listed from ttys000 and the digits increment one at a time.
You can open Terminal and check your TTY as in the examples below:
$ tty
/dev/ttys000
Or
$ who
trane console Sep 1 05:18
trane ttys000 Sep 1 05:19
trane ttys001 Sep 1 05:19
Or
$ w
13:04 up 1 day, 7:46, 3 users, load averages: 1.85 2.02 3.87
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
trane console - Sun05 31:45 -
trane s000 - Sun05 - w
trane s001 - Sun05 9 -bash
For more information on those commands, see the relevant man
pages. For e.g., type man who
and quit using q
.
It's worth noting that macOS only runs one instance of the Aqua GUI for a particular display device.