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On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>  > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:18 +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
>  > > Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2005 21:12 CEST schrieb Robert Watson:
>  > > > (2) /dev/cuaa* has been renamed to /dev/cuad*
>  > > 
>  > > I saw that cuaa got cuad and ucom0 got cuaU0. Now what is the meaning of 
>  > > cua? tty AFAIK is TeleTYpe...
>  > 
>  > Call(-out) Unit Access, IIRC.
> 
> Yes.  I remember that some systems (Solaris) used the term
> ACU for "automatic call unit", which just means a modem.

Actually, Way Back When, ACUs and MODEMs were separate boxen.  :-}

Peace,
david  (who did work at an installation that had them, ca. 1976)
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