The Tty Demystified (2008)

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Diving into the mysteries of TTY, a 2008 article is getting fresh attention, and commenters are sharing their experiences with Unix-like systems. The discussion is sparked by nostalgia, with one commenter recalling the term "Line Discipline" as a trip down memory lane. However, the original site was temporarily overwhelmed, prompting someone to share an archive link to rescue the article from the "hug of death." Some users even joked about being misled by the article's appearance, with one Firefox user nearly skipping it due to a misleading reading time estimate.

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tomhow

4 months ago

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The TTY Demystified (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31146862 - April 2022 (22 comments)

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The TTY Demystified (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4544318 - Sept 2012 (46 comments)

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The TTY demystified - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658155 - June 2009 (13 comments)

mwcz

4 months ago

Tenth time's the charm. I slept through all the others.

dark-star

4 months ago

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The site only says

  pg_connect:

for me. Broken? HN hug of death?

jonasdegendtAuthor

4 months ago

Alas, hugged indeed it seems like, someone posted an archive link!

vivzkestrel

4 months ago

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kindly put the comment section inside an expandable accordion or something, it takes 90% of the scrollbar space on your page currently. i initially thought it is a 500,000 word article only to scroll down 5 pages and see rest of everything is comments

Dilettante_

4 months ago

Firefox reading mode told me it'd be a 108 - 137 minute read, I almost skipped the article(and missed out) because of that.

wowczarek

4 months ago

The term Line Discipline gets me every time, it's right up there with Kernel, Shell and Terminal and always takes me back to my first contact with Unix and Unix-like systems. Felt like being eight years old and being allowed to pet a real dinosaur.

esbranson

4 months ago

By far the best way to learn writing kernel drivers. N_DEVELOPMENT for the win! (That's a newer line discipline number for testing, first supported in Linux v5.18-rc1 from 2022.)

neonate

4 months ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20250816000000/https://linusakes...

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