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From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Drawterm and Inferno? Was: [9fans] fortune-worthy
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:16:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56a2faa27b020228835e32308bc0acb2@centurytel.net> (raw)

>>>it not be relatively easy (or at least, easier than it was) to rewrite
>>>drawterm in limbo?
>
> i'd have thought it would be close to a shell script,
> given some commands that roger has done to interact
> with rio, that might (or might not) even be in the current distribution.
>
> much of drawterm is similar to a large subset of emu
> (and supporting libraries).

What about a VM for the simplest machine possible that can run Plan9?
Add a C compiler for the architecture and then everyhting just runs.



             reply	other threads:[~2003-12-20  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-20  6:16 Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2003-12-20 12:23 ` paurea
2003-12-20 16:12   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-12-21  1:54     ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-20 18:01       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-12-20 12:40 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-12-19  1:40   ` Russ Cox
2003-12-20 16:17     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-12-20 18:47   ` phillip stanley-marbell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-17 15:24 David Presotto
2003-12-18  7:57 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-12-19  3:32   ` Drawterm and Inferno? Was: " Martin C.Atkins
2003-12-19  8:18     ` Charles Forsyth
2003-12-19  8:26       ` Martin C.Atkins
2003-12-19 15:21     ` boyd, rounin

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