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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Why /dev/dsk/* and no /dev/tty/*?
Message-ID: <3757@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 7 Apr 89 23:07:06 GMT
Organization: Xenix Support
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The really really big thing that clutters up /dev is all those tty devices.
There are dozens more of those than there are disks, tapes, memory, and so on.

So why did AT&T move all the disks into /dev/dsk/* and leave all those ttys
out there? I know that you can't REALLY call it /dev/tty/whatever, because
/dev/tty is a historical relic, but what's wrong with having SOME sort of
/dev/t/whatever arrangement?
-- 
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