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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Drawterm GPU (was: Software philosophy)
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 12:45:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2557875BCB80BD948B5065F311C14865@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adb1b975-dad2-4cca-b8f5-e03aee2cbe0c@sirjofri.de>

Quoth sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9fans@sirjofri.de>:
> Basically just a driver bridge between 9p and 
> OpenGL for example.

While that may be a neat hack, I think the way
forward is to *ignore* everything but the ability
to run arbitrary code. The alternative binds us
tightly to complex interfaces that we are unable
to control, and unwilling to implement ourselves.


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-22 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-22 12:10 Stuart Morrow
2021-08-22 12:29 ` sirjofri
2021-08-22 13:44   ` Paul Lalonde
2021-08-22 13:53     ` Eli Cohen
2021-09-01  0:29       ` kokamoto
2021-09-01  7:35         ` sirjofri
2021-09-02  5:01           ` kokamoto
2021-09-02  5:21             ` Eli Cohen
2021-09-03 23:06               ` kokamoto
2021-08-22 14:57     ` sirjofri
2021-08-22 16:45       ` ori [this message]
2021-08-22 15:47     ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-22 16:23       ` Paul Lalonde
2021-08-22 19:04         ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-22 19:09           ` Paul Lalonde
2021-08-23  4:13             ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-23  5:23               ` sirjofri
2021-08-22 16:41     ` ori
2021-08-22 17:29       ` sirjofri
2021-08-22 18:25         ` ori
2021-08-22 18:50           ` sirjofri
2021-09-24  1:50             ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2021-08-22 21:10           ` Philip Silva via 9fans
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-08-18 22:00 [9fans] Software philosophy Eli Cohen
2021-08-22  2:46 ` kokamoto
2021-08-22  3:16   ` Eli Cohen
2021-08-22  7:07     ` [9fans] Drawterm GPU (was: Software philosophy) sirjofri
2021-08-22 10:04       ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2021-08-22 11:49         ` sirjofri
2021-08-22 12:24           ` Chris McGee

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