Multiplexed Special Devices

Paul Chamberlain tif at doorstop.austin.ibm.com
Fri Oct 12 02:52:03 AEST 1990


In article <6633 at ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> porr at ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Greg Porr) writes:
>Does anyone know the origin of the "Multiplexed Character Special" (IFMPC)
>and "Multiplexed Block Special" (IFMPB) device types?

My RT has a comment in inode.h that these are "obsolete," however, the
console (hft) device is a multiplexed character device.  Are these the same?

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