>> 
>> Well, _I_ don't like calling these things the "printer" port or the
>> "modem" port.  Why can't we be consistent and call them tty00 and tty01?
>> And then we could rather easily pass an optional parameter to a generic
>> script to select the port to use.
>
>Well, the idea behind "modem" and "print" was twofold. 1) use names which
>newbies know about.

Yeah!  Even I can understand the funny little ICONs attached to the modem 
and printer ports, but what's a "tty00" or "tty01" ICON look like?

-bob