26 Nov
2017
26 Nov
'17
12:16 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
Every PDP-11 UNIX I ever used had the console KL-11 as
/dev/tty8. The
question is why. My guess is that for some reason...
DC-11 was assigned tty[0-7]abcd
DH-11 was tty[f-u]
KL-11/DL-11 was tty8 or console
Weirdly the dc.c driver has space for 14-lines.
What was /dev/ttye used for?
http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/4/dc
https://github.com/eunuchs/unix-archive/blob/master/PDP-11/Trees/V6/usr/sys…
http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/4/kl
http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/4/dh