Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> Hmm, good question.  I'd be happy to rename it, but in some sense
> it's not really a "tty" since it has no way to connect a terminal.

Neither does a pseudo terminal.  And the old modem banks with the
separate dialer device fell into this category too, I guess.

However, to the system it presents itself as a tty.

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