On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:13:14AM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> Lord Isildur drunkenly mumbled...
> > This is still Berkeley UNIX here. since the beginning, device names have
> > followed the names of the relevant drivers in the kernel. something
> this is the worst reasoning i have EVER heard.  we've always cross-threaded
> our screws, so we will always cross-thread our screws.  just cause that's how
> it was done it the past doesn't make it right, it makes it how it was done in
> the past.

This is, however, common reasoning in the BSD world, especialyl for ideas
that were invented in SysV. "SysV invented that? No way in hell!"