From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9ab217670903251724w528437abkc6b4fe44b31f542@mail.gmail.com> References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <32d987d50903251714reea8442i97fca2e84dc0883a@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670903251724w528437abkc6b4fe44b31f542@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:39:27 -0300 Message-ID: <32d987d50903251739n8c9210n517f0a25e094c14b@mail.gmail.com> From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c5551d72-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ok, you can't compare porting inferno to the ds with drawterm for the iphon= e 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 wr= ote: > 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 =C2=A0you _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 > > --=20 Federico G. Benavento