From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <8C320D43-69D0-44A8-9DA5-1CEE0FF816F2@corpus-callosum.com> From: Jeff Sickel To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <4EEA535B-4605-4633-8254-0FC2814FAA2A@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:31:41 -0500 References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <32d987d50903251739n8c9210n517f0a25e094c14b@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b180903251802q130470fco6a4d878a097640f6@mail.gmail.com> <924E6995-A949-41D6-8844-2B2FF87CB937@gmail.com> <14ec7b180903251811md72d664k576f7b12b86dd633@mail.gmail.com> <20090326012938.GE22497@masters6.cs.jhu.edu> <9ab217670903251907s3cb0a034ma5aaba756c8118f5@mail.gmail.com> <509071940903251942x732759fdg57f3818316a9a12f@mail.gmail.com> <9F99EC32-9C27-4BD5-99EA-3D88EEE8C53F@mac.com> <4EEA535B-4605-4633-8254-0FC2814FAA2A@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c7654308-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 A text based environment isn't that interesting, but a 9p transport that allows the end user to cache and store files on the device to be reviewed through currently provided renderers/decoders (pdf, jpeg, tiff, myriad of audio formats, html/xml) would be ideal. Given that we're starting to see more utilities that do similar things but over other transport means (http, sync utilities, etc) I think enabling the iPhone OS with 9p and a cache stored natively would be a significant benefit to future applications. And with the new APIs for copy/paste, a 9p based cache could be a great transport for data synchronization. -jas On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > I think rio is probably not useful, but a purely text based > environtment isn't interesting either...