At 3/7/99 11:50:00 AM, you wrote:
>
>Wot in blazes does 'tty' stand for, folks? :o)
>
>any help much appreciated ;)
>
I believe it originated with "teletype", which were the old terminals
back in "the olden times".
A teletype was a typewriter with a keyboard, an was the input-output
device back then. You were lucky to get 2400 baudrate with them.
The name just has carried on.
Now there is also ttyS* which stands for serial input output.
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