From: Steven A Bairstow (bairstow@white.crayola.cs.psu.edu)
Date: 05/03/93


From: bairstow@white.crayola.cs.psu.edu (Steven A Bairstow)
Subject: Re: Naming Serial Devices
Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 15:37:32 GMT

In article <1s2qjhINNbe@hydra.Helsinki.FI> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller - Linux Device Registrar) writes:
>
>Since this affects almost *all* of us, I've posted it to both newsgroups.
>...
>Rather than throw ourselves into a hyperbolic trajectory like "tty00" or even
>"con??" or "ttyC??"... why not duplicate the PTY naming method, but with the
>first letter starting at CAPITAL "S" and going on down the line?

Yes, I like it! A good scheme and it is even compatible with the existing
nameing.

                        Steve