[TUHS] pseudo tty history

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Sat Aug 16 13:20:27 AEST 2025


That version came from the BBN code.

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM Tom Lyon <pugs78 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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