Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno

["ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>]

On 2/26/07, fgergo@gmail.com <fgergo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure, but at the moment that's official and Sean Moss Pultz the
> project manager for the Neo1973 seems to be quite enthusiastic about
> the product.


What you need for the greenphone is qt. I don't know all the answers
here, but small mobile devices seem a good fit to plan  9 or inferno.
Actually, the mobile phones have enough memory etc. that they are as
big as a Power challenge that was described as "a big boy" in some of
the code ... remember when 32M was a lot of memory ?

[[ now all us old guys can contribute our "I used to compute with 1
bit" stories, right?]]

I prefer to go optimistic. I'm looking at Qt to see what it would take
to have it drive libdraw on linux, just out of curiosity. If Qt can
work on libdraw, I wonder if it could ever be native to Plan 9.

Hey, if we got Qt on Plan 9, we might actually have a GUI that people
don't hate right away ... then we can slowly, gradually suck them into
the system ... slowly ... gradually ... until they're running rio
without noticing ...

ron