Manuel Bouyer wrote
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:18:58PM +0930, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> > Michael Richardson wrote
> > > 
> > >   Should the 10th serial port be called /dev/tty10, or /dev/tty010?
> > >   "sh MAKEDEV tty10" makes the latter.
> > 
> > Whats wrong with tty0a?
> 
> The problem will be here again when you'll hit the 16th port :)

True, but...

Are there any reasons why the second digit isn't used? In this
case ttyff would become port 256, more than enough to build a fancy
terminal server.

To my knowledge, there are no definitions for ttyaX, ttybX, ttycX,
ttydX, ttyeX and ttyfX (X being a numerical value).

So why not defining serial ports in the range of tty[0..f][0..f]?

cheerio Berndt
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