Subject: Re: USB modem
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: current-users
Date: 08/17/1999 20:52:21
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 09:18:20AM -0700, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> writes:
> > 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.
>
> uh, yes it does.
>
> usb <-> usbmodem <-> remote modem <-> terminal
>
> who's to say some weirdo wouldn't use them for dial-in?
why weirdo? Who am I to know what kind of modem Chris(*) has connected
between his phone line and his machine, when I dial in?
-is