[TUHS] TTY8

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sun Nov 26 02:48:54 AEST 2017


    > From: "Ron Natalie"

    > Every PDP-11 UNIX I ever used had the console KL-11 as /dev/tty8.
    > The question is why.

Blast! I have this memory of reading an explanation for that somewhere - but
I cannot remember what it was, or where! I've done a grep through my hoard of
Unix documents, looking for "tty8", but no hits.

	Noel



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