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