[TUHS] pseudo tty history

[Tom Lyon]

Yeah, I was thinking that 4.1c BSD must've had them for rlogin and telnet.

Which got me looking for Fabry and Bill Joy's design/planning documents for
4.2, which are not in the TUHS archives.
Anyone got them??

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> At the very least, 4.2BSD had them for telnet and rlogin. They were
> static, though. You had to MAKEDEV enough units.
>
> Warner
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:00 PM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That was my guess. I figured the people who did the work are on this
>> list, and primary sources rule.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think that wikipedia history is somewhat garbled when it comes to the
>>> UNIX implementations.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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