On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 10:15:17AM +0200, Leo Weppelman wrote:
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> So... I came to the following proposal:
>    - Follow the i386-port naming sceme
>        tty0[1234] -> dialin
>        dty0[1234] -> dialout
>      This is different to both Solaris and FreeBSD, but the same as
>      NetBSD/i386...
> 
>    - I was thinking to make the following relations:
>        tty00 -> 8530 Channel A (formerly ser02)
>        tty01 -> 8530 Channel B (formerly mdm02)
>        tty02 -> UART on first 68901 (formerly mdm01)
>        tty03 -> UART on second 68901 (formerly ser01)
> 
>        The rationale behind this being:
>          - sort per chip-type
>          - 8530 first -> it has backside connectors on all models
>          - use chip (channel) order

This looks nice. I vote for this.
If one liks the old name he or she can create a link, e.g. ln -s /dev/tty01
/dev/mdm02 and use mdm02 for dialout.

Thomas