From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090326032009.7CFB05B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <14ec7b180903251802q130470fco6a4d878a097640f6@mail.gmail.com> <924E6995-A949-41D6-8844-2B2FF87CB937@gmail.com> <14ec7b180903251811md72d664k576f7b12b86dd633@mail.gmail.com> <20090326012938.GE22497@masters6.cs.jhu.edu> <20090326032009.7CFB05B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:32:31 -0300 Message-ID: <32d987d50903252032y444ebddcq670e12d1a94e4f2f@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: c769ce50-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 my questions were more about the real usage of iphone's dt my short sighted vision of the gsoc is this, I didn't use any of the stuff that gsoc 2007 got us, though I recognize the inferno ds port. but for the rest, it might be interesting, but is someone using that stuff? iphone's drawterm sounds like something that very few people will use (the ones that have a cpu server and an iphone) in not that much often, of course it could be interesting to have it, but... I think that gsoc is a good chance to get going stuff that we need and we will really use. think of the openssh port, I did that, not for a gsoc and people use it, some guy even wrote a filesystem which suits lot's of people's needs. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Bakul Shah wr= ote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:25:07 CDT Eric Van Hensbergen = =C2=A0wrote: >> Also, figuring out how multitouch works with plan 9 would be valuable >> in itself -- although admitadly could be done without an iPhone. > > Exactly what I was thinking while reading this thread! =C2=A0An > intuitive multitouch interface that goes beyond cut-n-paste > would go very well with a 3D graphics protocol. 9gl anyone?! > > --=20 Federico G. Benavento