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I'm beginning to read RFC 854 and have one question about it. In this RFC said the following:

An NVT is an imaginary device which provides a standard, network-wide, intermediate representation of a canonical terminal.

So what does mean canonical terminal?

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In this context, it means a "common, standard terminal". It has features that can be found on most ordinary terminals. For instance, it uses ASCII, because that's the most common character set on real terminals.

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