From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:04:31 -0400 From: "J.R. Mauro" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20090326180431.GA28916@tuxbookpro.rit.edu> References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <32d987d50903251714reea8442i97fca2e84dc0883a@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670903251724w528437abkc6b4fe44b31f542@mail.gmail.com> <32d987d50903251739n8c9210n517f0a25e094c14b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c965faf8-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 > 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 wrote: > >> 2009/3/25 Federico G. Benavento : > >>> 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 > > > > > -- J.R. Mauro () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against Microsoft attachments