From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10702260119y1d6c77deub0e832482776bb89@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:19:15 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 148423e6-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 2/26/07, 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