On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
