Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:06:31 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cua*x naming? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available] Message-ID: <20050719150631.GM26920@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <200507191324.j6JDOlMC060003@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <1121703804.4401.0.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> <200507191324.j6JDOlMC060003@lurza.secnetix.de>
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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) -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Any given sequence of letters is a misspelling of a great many English words. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for public key.
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