From: Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9?
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:06:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5c38dj6.fsf@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15910.1224515410@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu>
Dave Eckhardt writes:
> The good news is that the system, and each part of it,
> is small, so if you don't like something it can be
> replaced. Unlike Windows or Unix, where you can't
> do much about the windowing system, in Plan 9 you
> really can replace it and it's not that much code.
Quite a few people have mentioned the heavy use of the mouse, and that
is definitely a drawback. Replacing parts of the system does sound like
a good approach.
> Is there a university near you which has a CHI/HCI
> (Computer-Human/Human-Computer Interaction) degree?
I doubt it, but it might be worth investigating. This is really a hobby
interest, rather than a necessity. I stumbled upon the Plan 9 papers
while pursuing my own MS degree in CS.
An earlier poster mentioned Inferno, and I'm looking into that right
now.
Thanks to everyone for the informative replies.
-- Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-20 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 9:27 Chris Brannon
2008-10-20 9:55 ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-20 9:56 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-10-20 10:15 ` Jeff R. Allen
2008-10-20 10:29 ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-20 10:34 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-10-20 14:12 ` john
2008-10-20 21:00 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-10-20 21:15 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-10-21 5:00 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-10-21 5:20 ` Uriel
2008-10-21 10:37 ` [9fans] How to go about doing screen reading Pietro Gagliardi
2008-10-21 15:52 ` Chris Brannon
2008-10-21 17:21 ` [9fans] bitsy anyone? Benjamin Huntsman
2008-10-21 17:29 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-10-21 18:17 ` David du Colombier
2008-10-21 21:09 ` Eoghan Sherry
2008-10-21 21:10 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2008-10-21 21:49 ` Eoghan Sherry
2008-10-23 9:29 ` [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9? matt
2008-10-20 15:10 ` Dave Eckhardt
2008-10-20 16:06 ` Chris Brannon [this message]
2008-10-20 19:15 ` Noah Evans
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