The Unix Heritage Society mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Of /dev/tty8
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:13:45 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2403182158390.86416@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)

Evenin' all...

I have a vague recollection that /dev/tty8 was the console in Edition 5 
(we only used it briefly until Ed 6 appeared), but cannot find a reference 
to it; lots of stuff about Penguin/OS though...

Something to do with 0-7 being the mux, so "8" was left (remember that 
/dev/tty and /dev/console didn't exist back then), mayhaps?

Thanks.

-- Dave

             reply	other threads:[~2024-03-18 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-18 11:13 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2024-03-18 11:22 ` [TUHS] " Ron Natalie
2024-03-18 19:36   ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-18 20:17     ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-03-18 13:56 ` Clem Cole
2024-03-18 14:58   ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-18 15:20     ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-18 20:08       ` Ron Natalie
2024-03-18 20:21         ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-03-18 22:39           ` Bakul Shah via TUHS

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2403182158390.86416@aneurin.horsfall.org \
    --to=dave@horsfall.org \
    --cc=tuhs@tuhs.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).