-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:25:09 -1000 Jerome Lyles <susemail@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
What does tty stand for (especially the y:-) Goes back to original Unix. Unix was originally implemented on a minicomputer (eg. DEC PDP-7). The main user input/output device was an ASR33 printing teletype machine. In Unix speak, a tty is a terminal device, and the /dev/tty* refer to serial devices.
When the X Window System came into being, terminals, such as xterm and Konsole, use Psedo Terminals. These wwere formally /dev/ttypx or something like that, and today they are in /dev/pts. tty1- tty6 are virtual terminals, where /dev/tty1 corresponds to the console. You can get to it from KDE with ctrl-alt-f1. (and you can return via ctrl-alt-f7). /dev/ttyS0 corresponds to the Windows COM1, and /dev/ttyS1 corresponds to the Windows COM2. AFAIK, these use hardware flow control so you can connect a modem. - -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/6K+t+wA+1cUGHqkRAmHVAJ9qrhw79sH6jdge/8OFLg6Rq1aVdwCdEERb zmBV1fNje+46wye09N0lYJ4= =4/i3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----