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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Of /dev/tty8
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 06:36:00 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2403190634060.86416@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <em1eeb06f5-1997-4857-bede-2549dc534f7a@9f42e426.com>

On Mon, 18 Mar 2024, Ron Natalie wrote:

> /dev/tty existed in Version 6 for sure.  It wasn't the console but 
> rather a magic device that mapped to the processes "controlling 
> terminal."

I was referring to /dev/tty8, not /dev/tty...

-- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-18 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-18 11:13 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2024-03-18 11:22 ` [TUHS] " Ron Natalie
2024-03-18 19:36   ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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

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