From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4EEA535B-4605-4633-8254-0FC2814FAA2A@gmail.com> References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <924E6995-A949-41D6-8844-2B2FF87CB937@gmail.com> <14ec7b180903251811md72d664k576f7b12b86dd633@mail.gmail.com> <20090326012938.GE22497@masters6.cs.jhu.edu> <9ab217670903251907s3cb0a034ma5aaba756c8118f5@mail.gmail.com> <509071940903251942x732759fdg57f3818316a9a12f@mail.gmail.com> <9F99EC32-9C27-4BD5-99EA-3D88EEE8C53F@mac.com> <4EEA535B-4605-4633-8254-0FC2814FAA2A@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:24:51 -0400 Message-ID: <326364c20903252024s3560fa97q81eacdbf06a6d9cc@mail.gmail.com> From: Tom Lieber To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c75c2ff2-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > I think rio is probably not useful, but a purely text based environtment > isn't interesting either... The only thing I could see anyone using this for is if they wrote an iPhone-tailored UI for controlling... something... and needed to control it sometime between leaving their work computer and arriving at their home computer. Not having this phone I couldn't care less whether drawterm is ported, but allowing others to make mobile interfaces for their stuff without needing a developer license and without having to learn anything outside the 9 universe doesn't sound like a bad deal. -- Tom Lieber http://AllTom.com/