On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:56:13AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> According to Wikipedia, the PS/2 connection was designed in 1987
> and the first release of the Linux kernel was in 1991. Therefore
> "/dev/psaux" could have appeared in Unix before it appeared in
> Linux. Whether the first a
From: Bob Proulx
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:24:26 -0600
> In that context it means "auxiliary". As in PS/2 auxiliary device.
So this "auxiliary" is essentially synonymous with "peripheral"
or "serial peripheral".
> Those three letter device names were in general use before MS-DOS
> times.
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