Why /dev/dsk/* and no /dev/tty/*?

[Peter da Silva]

The really really big thing that clutters up /dev is all those tty devices.
There are dozens more of those than there are disks, tapes, memory, and so on.

So why did AT&T move all the disks into /dev/dsk/* and leave all those ttys
out there? I know that you can't REALLY call it /dev/tty/whatever, because
/dev/tty is a historical relic, but what's wrong with having SOME sort of
/dev/t/whatever arrangement?
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