Various formats are available. Go to the websites shown above to get these. It has general technical info on the serial port including troubleshooting it. 1.5 Terminology Used in this Document Configuration means the same as set-up. If you know for sure, let me know.
Programs execute on the host computer but the results display on the terminal screen.
In the days of mainframes from the mid 1970's to the mid 1980's, most people used terminals to communicate with computers. They typed in programs, ran programs, wrote documents, issued printing commands, etc. It was called a terminal since it was located at the terminal end of this cable. In X-Windows the programs xterm, rxvt, and zterm emulate terminals. A real terminal is different from a monitor because it's a different electronic setup.