What is a getty?
Some info here:
It seems to be related to terminal, but what is the difference of getty and terminal? Archlinux by default boots into getty.
2 Answers
getty is a type of tty and a tty is your text input/output environment
Please see this answer on Unix & Linux StackExchange: What is the exact difference between a terminal, a shell, a tty, and a console
I hope that helps.
getty is a process that sets up the terminal and terminal/shell is an interpreter that takes input from the user and displays the output for that command command.
