optimus@canit.se (Iggy Drougge) writes:
> Why are BSD device names so terse? 

Tradition?  I guess nobody remembers the old pcc 6 (8 ???) character
limit for C variable and routine names. (*) If you prepended long
device names to the routine names you wouldn't have many characters
left to describe the variable or routine itself.

ethl3o()
ethl3c()
ethl3r()
ethl3w()
ethl3s()

-wolfgang

* Technically the names could be longer than N letters, but they had
to be unique in the first N.
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