From: "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: "Dave Horsfall" <dave@horsfall.org>,
"The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Of /dev/tty8
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:22:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <em1eeb06f5-1997-4857-bede-2549dc534f7a@9f42e426.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2403182158390.86416@aneurin.horsfall.org>
/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."
Just checked the V5 and V6 sources in the archive. /dev/tty indeed
showed up there. The driver is in dmr/sys.c.
------ Original Message ------
From "Dave Horsfall" <dave@horsfall.org>
To "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Date 3/18/2024 7:13:45 AM
Subject [TUHS] Of /dev/tty8
>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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-18 11:22 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 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2024-03-18 19:36 ` [TUHS] " 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
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