From: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcstvax!geoff
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Why tty8?
Article-I.D.: utcstvax.117
Posted: Tue May 18 18:44:41 1982
Received: Tue May 18 20:31:52 1982
References: pyuxjj.188

According to the Sixth Edition of the UNIX Programmer's Manual,
the DC-11's were /dev/tty[0-7a-d], the DH-11's were /dev/tty[f-u],
and the KL-11 (now DL-11) was /dev/tty8.
I assume that the names were just assigned arbitrarily and
thus appeared as above in the distributed v6 system.

On the other hand, it could be another dsw.

Geoff Collyer, U. of Toronto Computing Services