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