From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 14:18:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867ebc36addb575545f253fda3ca2026@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinNMQ7H9bjSh8nSqNnfMdj7rFDzXw@mail.gmail.com>
> What the hell? They're not saying, "Screw running on hardware, let's
> just boot the whole system in Javascript under a browser", they want
> to let you connect to your Plan 9 system from a web browser, because
> you can find a Javascript-supporting web browser anywhere (except Plan
> 9) these days.
>
> As fgb would say, relax. No "Bell Labs people" have even commented on
> this thread, and if anybody wants to implement this, it's their own
> damn business. Writing a drawterm replacement in Javascript is not
> going to "downgrade" Plan 9. In fact, it would be rather useful--now
> when you're away from home, you can use somebody else's computer to
> connect to your CPU server and read your mail, for example.
relax, man. i understand peter's perspective. and i don't think
it's unreasonable. just think about how dbus has downgraded linux.
on the other hand, i think a js virtual machine (mips would be nicer
than x86) might be interesting. drawterm has always been a clever
hack. it would be nice to have emulated environment that's more
portable than 9vx and not tied to 32-bit x86.
one would then be able to write applications for non-plan 9 users
in plan 9. clearly they will have a browser.
not that i'm signing up or anything. :-)
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-17 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 7:00 Adrian Tritschler
2011-05-17 7:38 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-17 15:02 ` Russ Cox
2011-05-17 13:59 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-17 17:53 ` Joseph Stewart
2011-05-17 17:57 ` John Floren
2011-05-17 18:04 ` Joseph Stewart
2011-05-17 18:16 ` Jason Dreisbach
2011-05-17 18:00 ` Russ Cox
2011-05-17 15:08 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-05-17 17:23 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-05-17 17:31 ` John Floren
2011-05-17 18:18 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-05-17 18:46 ` a z
2011-05-17 19:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-05-17 23:05 ` David Leimbach
2011-05-18 9:15 ` dorin bumbu
2011-05-18 9:40 ` a z
2011-05-17 22:49 ` errno
2011-05-17 23:40 ` Jacob Todd
2011-05-17 23:58 ` errno
2011-05-18 0:18 ` David Leimbach
2011-05-18 1:02 ` errno
2011-05-18 8:33 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-05-18 9:49 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-05-18 12:24 ` blstuart
2011-05-18 14:23 ` David Leimbach
2011-05-18 15:37 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-05-18 15:46 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-20 12:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-05-19 1:04 ` blstuart
2011-05-18 15:58 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2011-05-17 18:16 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-05-18 6:31 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-05-18 7:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-05-18 7:30 ` Peter A. Cejchan
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