From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3B4B6B71.F21A49A4@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3B4B13AF.6336FDA6@null.net>, <20010710200948.J22003@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Subject: Re: [9fans] General question about hosted interfaces Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:34:09 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c524b5fc-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Lucio De Re wrote: > Isn't that largely what drawterm does? I don't think so. Can I use drawterm to run rio, acme, etc. without the aid of a separate system running a Plan 9 kernel? > Funny, I'd like it the other way: have all the nice features of the > Plan 9 infrastructure and throw the ugly Unix toys above it, ... Remember, the constraint I was addressing is when the actual OS (direct hardware control) is predetermined (and not Plan 9). Don't think that such an environment has only "down" sides; consider that at least using Windows support for all those PC devices (graphics cards etc.) isn't such a problem, because somebody else will be taking care of that anyway. Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of Bath Computing Services, UK Keywords: Cc: -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK D.H.Davis@bath.ac.uk