From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:04:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090326180431.GA28916@tuxbookpro.rit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4e6962a0903251754r183ef04w6b07b0e953efd9a7@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:54:57PM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> One nice thing about drawterm is it lets you export the iphone's
> interfaces to Plan 9 -- that could lead to much more interesting
I doubt you'll be able to do that with the insane restrictions Apple puts on
officially-sanctioned apps. You'd have to work via the iPhone jailbreak to
expose anything other than a very small, sandboxed directory on the phone via
drawterm.
> possibilities beyond typing at the shell. Probably a better approach
> would be to look at providing an octopus client for iPhone though...
>
> -eric
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Federico G. Benavento
> <benavento@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ok, you can't compare porting inferno to the ds with drawterm for the iphone
> > drawterm is an app to get to a Plan 9 server, inferno is a self contained
> > operating system where you can get the advantage of writing your
> > own apps for it.
> >
> > for this port to be useful you need 1) an iphone; �2) a cpu server to cpu
> > and 3) that killer app that makes want to drawterm from the iphone.
> >
> > I think writing that killer app, whatever that is makes more sense.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 2009/3/25 Federico G. Benavento <benavento@gmail.com>:
> >>> do we need drawterm for the iphone? is anyone going to use it?
> >>>
> >>> I mean, it's a tiny screen, typing on handhelds sucks, plus is not
> >>> that there is killer app Plan 9 has that �you _must_ run.
> >>>
> >>> am I forgetting something obvious?
> >>
> >> Tiny screen, but reasonable resolution. Should find out who put it on
> >> the ideas page for GSoC; it wasn't me (so clearly somebody is
> >> interested). Besides, look at the DS port. Smaller screens, lower
> >> resolution (even combined, I think). Whether it's novelty or not isn't
> >> for me to say, but I can see how it would be useful.
> >>
> >> --dho
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Federico G. Benavento
> >
> >
>
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Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 20:57 André Günther
2009-03-26 0:14 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-26 0:24 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 0:39 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-26 0:54 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 1:02 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 1:07 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 1:11 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 1:21 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 1:29 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-03-26 2:03 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-03-26 2:07 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 2:42 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-03-26 2:53 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-03-26 3:09 ` Noah Evans
2009-03-26 3:14 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 3:24 ` Tom Lieber
2009-03-26 3:32 ` Paul Lalonde
2009-03-26 3:31 ` Jeff Sickel
2009-03-26 2:23 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 2:25 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 3:20 ` Bakul Shah
2009-03-26 3:32 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-26 11:59 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 12:30 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-26 12:51 ` Uriel
2009-03-26 13:28 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 13:34 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 14:43 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-03-26 16:18 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-03-26 16:24 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 13:16 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 13:27 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 16:17 ` Bakul Shah
2009-03-26 1:31 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 2:01 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 4:36 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 2:20 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 8:33 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-03-26 18:04 ` J.R. Mauro [this message]
2009-03-26 18:22 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 18:29 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 18:39 ` Tom Lieber
2009-03-26 18:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 19:00 ` Uriel
2009-03-26 19:14 ` lucio
2009-03-26 19:27 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 19:36 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 19:56 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-29 1:14 ` Anant Narayanan
2009-03-30 2:51 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-30 3:02 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-30 3:40 ` ron minnich
2009-03-30 3:46 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-30 14:08 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-03-31 4:26 ` Uriel
2009-03-31 4:36 ` Jack Johnson
2009-03-31 4:57 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-03-31 6:00 ` Uriel
2009-03-31 6:22 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-03-31 6:24 ` André Günther
2009-03-31 6:42 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-31 20:51 ` David Leimbach
2009-03-31 7:33 ` yy
2009-03-31 7:36 ` Uriel
2009-03-31 9:14 ` Noah Evans
2009-03-31 12:01 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-31 14:36 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-31 14:57 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-31 15:02 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-31 15:09 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2009-03-31 11:52 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-26 18:39 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-26 19:35 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 19:57 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-26 19:54 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 21:22 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-03-26 21:26 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-28 1:21 ` Uriel
2009-03-28 2:02 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 7:32 ` André Günther
2009-03-26 10:42 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-03-26 11:59 ` hiro
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