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From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: Number of ptys in 205 - Any limits ?
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On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> I think the number of available letter to name them is the biggest
> restriction.  It's not as easy to add more letters to MAKEDEV, since
> most programs have a hardcoded idea which letters to use for naming
> ptys. :(

    One of best.com's shell servers reported 129 users on it.  I
wonder how they did it.  128 dialup users and 1 console user?  :)

<rdy>  3:52PM  up 2 days,  5:34, 129 users, load averages: 7.47, 5.60, 6.28
<rdy> [shell1]-p8:2> uname -a
<rdy> FreeBSD shell1.best.com 2.2-BEST FreeBSD 2.2-BEST #1: Mon Jul 31 15:52:47 PDT

-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org