From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263979AbTD0M7l (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:59:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263040AbTD0M7l (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:59:41 -0400 Received: from khms.westfalen.de ([62.153.201.243]:50050 "EHLO khms.westfalen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263979AbTD0M7j (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:59:39 -0400 Date: 27 Apr 2003 13:14:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8kgi4f3mw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <3EA86DED.50704@WirelessNetworksInc.com> Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh10 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? References: <3EA86DED.50704@WirelessNetworksInc.com> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com (Herman Oosthuysen) wrote on 24.04.03 in <3EA86DED.50704@WirelessNetworksInc.com>: > Wow, the tty layer is probably the oldest piece of surviving Unix code, I'm pretty sure the Linux tty layer is not a piece of surviving Unix *code* at all. (Neither is the rest of Linux.) Look to *BSD for that. The *interface*, and some parts of the design, may be - but so is the conceept of inodes, for example. And considering that AFAIR Unix *started* as a micro-MULTICS where certain ex-MULTICS-project people could continue to play with filesystems ... MfG Kai