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Devices that could be created by MAKEDEV include
serial ports,
parallel ports,
bus mice,
joysticks,
disk drives,
tape drives,
cd drives,
scanners, and
audio interfaces.
For the most part, it's been deprecated in modern day UNIX OSes.
FreeBSD for example, obsoleted it with devfs(5).
MAKEDEV usually resides in the /dev directory, although in some flavors of UNIX, it's in /sbin (usually with a
soft link back to /dev/MAKEDEV).
It is usually written as a bash shell script. But there are many versions of MAKEDEV out there.
At one point in time, I wrote a version of MAKEDEV in perl for Linux. But that was several
years ago, and I don't think I have a copy of it anymore.
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