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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 ...

MfG Kai
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