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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 19:40:29 +0100 (MET)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> > Please explain.  Especially contentrate on justifing why serial interfaces
> > aren't a tty device.
> 
> No problem ;-).
> 
> There is the hardware: in esp. the serial controller itself - this
> belongs
> to misc, becouse a mouse for example doesn't have to interpret any tty
> stuff

 The same applies to the console keyboard, which is hooked to a standard
UART on certain systems as well. 

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