"""So when you look to a "text window" on you linux system (under X11) you are looking to: a terminal emulator, connected to a virtual terminal, identified by a tty file, inside which runs a shell."""

It should likely be noted that xterm connects to PTYs, not VTs. Otherwise correct.

Can anyone tell me why I can't zoom or select the text on this site on my iPad? Isn't this the very sort of thing we hate in flash thoughtfully recreated in HTML5?

I can zoom and select text just fine on an iPad... Odd.

How does copy not work? I just opened the link on an iPad and was able to copy fine.