From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6041acc575ef487dea8e6c664cc75f21@caldo.demon.co.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: Drawterm and Inferno? Was: [9fans] fortune-worthy From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <56a2faa27b020228835e32308bc0acb2@centurytel.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-cetkpkybyamgrilkuzeshsfomy" Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:40:42 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ad59d8be-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-cetkpkybyamgrilkuzeshsfomy Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit might as well use/do an emulator for an existing architecture that's reasonably straightforward, such as MIPS (perhaps with simpler `kernel mode' interfaces). unfortunately, you'd still need to do virtual devices and those would need to turn round and invoke the underlying systems's primitives, to access graphics and files for instance, so it's not clear that it simplifies things much. --upas-cetkpkybyamgrilkuzeshsfomy Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-3.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 1AXZVZ-0000Gv-4T; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:02:20 +0000 Received: from [130.203.4.6] (helo=mail.cse.psu.edu) by punt-3.mail.demon.net with esmtp id 1AXZVZ-0000Gv-4T for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 05:18:33 +0000 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 763A219DFA; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:18:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 57D7619DE7; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:18:13 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 9FDFC19CD6; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:17:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from gh-mail.centurytel.net (gh-mail.centurytel.net [209.206.160.252]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id BD9E419CCB for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:16:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from laptopvmw.9netics.com (adsl-64-91-109-37.centurytel.net [64.91.109.37] (may be forged)) by gh-mail.centurytel.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBK5GpRR000452 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:16:51 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <56a2faa27b020228835e32308bc0acb2@centurytel.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: Drawterm and Inferno? Was: [9fans] fortune-worthy From: "Skip Tavakkolian" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:16:58 -0800 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) >>>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. --upas-cetkpkybyamgrilkuzeshsfomy--