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