From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!pyuxjj!martin
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Why tty8?
Article-I.D.: pyuxjj.188
Posted: Mon May 17 12:03:57 1982
Received: Tue May 18 01:13:18 1982

  Back in the (good) old days of 6th Edition, the console device
was known as /dev/tty8. Does anyone know the reason for this
seemingly strange choice of names? Is it just something for which
there is no logical explanation?  I was reminded of it when told
about a piece of code which runs on a more recent version of the
system, but which *still* has a reference to tty8!

				Martin Harriss
				....!pyuxjj!martin