Messages in this thread | | | Date | 27 Apr 2003 13:14:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? |
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Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com (Herman Oosthuysen) wrote on 24.04.03 in <3EA86DED.50704@WirelessNetworksInc.com>:
> Wow, the tty layer is probably the oldest piece of surviving Unix code,
I'm pretty sure the Linux tty layer is not a piece of surviving Unix *code* at all. (Neither is the rest of Linux.) Look to *BSD for that.
The *interface*, and some parts of the design, may be - but so is the conceept of inodes, for example.
And considering that AFAIR Unix *started* as a micro-MULTICS where certain ex-MULTICS-project people could continue to play with filesystems ...
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