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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:16:13 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ttyd0/cuad0 - why is there still this duality ?
Message-ID:  <20050124151612.GC628@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050124083043.GA8729@kukulies.org>
References:  <20050124083043.GA8729@kukulies.org>

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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:30:43AM +0100, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> Just a question. Maybe it isn't true but to me it seems there
> is still this duality between ttyd and cuad serial devices.
> 
> Why is that? I'm just asking because someone I was talking with 
> about modems an comm programs was 'criticising' this fact
> in FreeBSD "while other systems long have abandoned this dualism"?

Because modems are still used for dial-in and dial-out.
tty handing out to getty and cua to the dial out process.
Moreover this handling was recently added for usb serials under
-current.
If other systems loose features - well it's their problem.

-- 
B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
bernd@bwct.de                                  info@bwct.de



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