25 Nov
2017
25 Nov
'17
10:48 p.m.
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