The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] wrote on 20.8.1996
  Re: serial ports

- > I don't know why the mkLinux folks did it backwards. Grr.
-
- Same reason Linux reversed the hard drive letters/numbers?
- sdg1 =3D SCSI ID6, partition 1....

Maybe because they do it this way on theirs PC platform ? The whole
numbering scheme is usually quite different from system to system (look at
Solaris devicce names for some really weird names)

- Simply to make Linux look a little less like Unix, maybe?  Linux was from
- Net/2, originally, right?  The free release with all the copyright
- questions?  As opposed to Lite.

No, Linux (which only includes the kernel and a few user-land utilities)
had never anything to do with the Net/2 release. You might be confused
because of their Net2 Kit (TCP/IP stuff), which had nothing to do with BSD
code.

I don't think (don't know for sure, don't run Linux) that the Linux kernel
will contain much BSD code.

ciao
  lutz


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