From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!leichter Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Why tty8? Article-I.D.: yale-com.527 Posted: Wed May 19 11:55:10 1982 Received: Fri May 21 00:35:10 1982 The ordering that Geoff Collyer reports - DC-11's as tty0-7,a-d etc. - makes it look like someone just numbered them by the order of the control- lers in the backplane on some machine or other, and the names stuck... Just a guess... -- Jerry