Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 13:30:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: rjob@gulftel.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp and internal modem Message-ID: <19970830133038.30783@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708290552.XAA01427@obie.softweyr.ml.org>; from Wes Peters on Thu, Aug 28, 1997 at 11:52:14PM -0600 References: <3404CEFA.BDA4221F@gulftel.com> <199708290552.XAA01427@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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On Thu, Aug 28, 1997 at 11:52:14PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > bob olbrich writes: >> Here's some new thoughts. During the FreeBSD installation procedure >> you have to select "ppp interface on serial port 1 (com2)". This >> sounds strange. We are trying for com1 are we not. > > No. Like all reasonable systems, UNIX begins labelling serial ports and > other resources with the first counting number, 0. If you have two > serial ports, they are numbered 0 and 1. DOS, developed by illiterates > for illiterates, calls these COM1 and COM2. To be fair, there's a great tradition of counting from 1. Humans did it for centuries, and languages like FORTRAN still do. Of course, this caused untold trouble when fitting device numbers into bit fields, so it makes more sense to start counting at 0. Greg
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