From: Keith Smith (keith@ksmith.com)
Date: 05/01/93 

From: keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith)
Subject: Re: [ANSWER]: /dev/ttys0 or /dev/ttyS0?
Date: Sun, 02 May 1993 03:08:10 GMT

In article <1rrabkINNl04@uwm.edu> Rick Miller - Linux Device Registrar <rick@ee.uwm.edu> writes:
>...but it looks like we'll be going back to the old "new" standard of
>using ttyS* instead of ttys* (to avoid collisions with pty-slave tty's).
>
>So folks... What about that "/dev/con??" idea? I kinda like it!
>
> ["What?!? Hey!... PUT DOWN THOSE ROCKS!!"]

I was always kinda partial to SCO's tty[1-8][a-z|A-Z] setup.

<SPLAT> (EWWWWWW, Ouch!)

How about something *really* complicated like:

tty000-tty999?

reserve tty000-009 for the console multiscreens and just go on up?

I never was real hip on /dev/con because it doesn't follow the
'standard' naming convention for a interactive line.

Maybe tty01-ttyXX for the multiscreens and ttyc01-ttycXX for other
serial ports. 

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