Some unofficial ports available are for Symbian and platforms like Windows Mobile. Some official ports available are for Unix like systems, Mac OS, Mac OSX. Originally PuTTY was developed for Microsoft Windows, but it is now being used for other operating systems. It is also used as a “serial console” client.TTY stands for Teletype. PuTTY is an application which is used for Telnet, SSH, client, raw TCP and rlogin protocols.
The terminal emulator basically emulates, within display architecture, a video terminal. PuTTY is an open source emulator and its free. A Terminal emulator is a software program, also referred to as a terminal application ( in short TTY).
