Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Feb 2000 02:26:48 -0500 (EST) | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: /dev/console should it always be available? |
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Garst R. Reese wrote: >Maybe /dev/tty[123456] should be renamed to /dev/vc[123456] >How many years has it been since a tty (teletype) was even manufactured?
Both Digital and HP still make them, altho' with the Compaq/Digital thing I'm not sure about Digital. (VT-540's and up... full color, multi-input, etc. I know where there are several dozen brand new ones plugged onto a DMS-500 :-))
>My kids did their grade 3 math on one, but the youngest is 39. I
I did mine on a Wyse terminal attached to a Wycat 2000 :-) (I'm 29.)
>personally find the ttySn tty, pty stuff pretty non intuitive. Obviously >the devfs junkies agree.
The tty* <-> cu* is even worse.
And, for the record, I prefer an amber VT-420 to just about anything else. I used one for four years -- with three Sony monitors beside of it; I still did everything on the VT.
A VT-420 and screen... that's all anyone ever needs. (Unless you want to play quake or something.)
--Ricky
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