A piece of communications history that allowed people who are deaf to make their own phone calls for the first time is on permanent display at RIT’s Wallace Library. One of the two modems used for the ...

The telephone was an invention that revolutionized human communication. No more did you have to physically courier a letter from one place to another, or send a telegram, or have a runner carry the ...

In the first part of this column (LJ, August 2002) we covered the basics of the tty layer and how to create a minimal tty driver. Now we move on and cover more of the tty layer, trying to explain some ...

TTY mode, also known as "Teletypewriter" or "Text Telephone" mode, is a specific accessibility setting in your Google Pixel's Phone app. It's used to facilitate text-to-audio communication by those ...

Welcome to a new column called Driving Me Nuts. Here we are going to explore the different Linux kernel driver subsystems and try to understand the wide range of different interfaces they provide and ...

The Federal Communications Commission is making big moves to help those with disabilities communicate. In a recent ruling, the FCC determined that it would replace the long-standing teletypewriter ...

The Linux kernel is highly scalable but, while it runs nicely on the world's largest computers, it is not an entirely comfortable fit on the smallest. The difficulties involved in running Linux on ...