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+.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
+.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
+.\"
+.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+.\"
+.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:03:24 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
+.TH ttyS 4 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
+.SH NAME
+ttyS \- serial terminal lines
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B ttyS[0\-3]
+are character devices for the serial terminal lines.
+.P
+They are typically created by:
+.P
+.in +4n
+.EX
+mknod \-m 660 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 # base address 0x3f8
+mknod \-m 660 /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 # base address 0x2f8
+mknod \-m 660 /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66 # base address 0x3e8
+mknod \-m 660 /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67 # base address 0x2e8
+chown root:tty /dev/ttyS[0\-3]
+.EE
+.in
+.SH FILES
+.I /dev/ttyS[0\-3]
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR chown (1),
+.BR mknod (1),
+.BR tty (4),
+.BR agetty (8),
+.BR mingetty (8),
+.BR setserial (8)