From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <13426df10702260119y1d6c77deub0e832482776bb89@mail.gmail.com> References: <13426df10702260119y1d6c77deub0e832482776bb89@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <8F591493-3400-411B-B1FD-C7677A3055DC@lanl.gov> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Latchesar Ionkov Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:19:20 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 14cdb70e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Qt is C++. Lucho On Feb 26, 2007, at 2:19 AM, ron minnich wrote: > On 2/26/07, fgergo@gmail.com wrote: >> Sure, but at the moment that's official and Sean Moss Pultz the >> project manager for the Neo1973 seems to be quite enthusiastic about >> the product. > > > What you need for the greenphone is qt. I don't know all the answers > here, but small mobile devices seem a good fit to plan 9 or inferno. > Actually, the mobile phones have enough memory etc. that they are as > big as a Power challenge that was described as "a big boy" in some of > the code ... remember when 32M was a lot of memory ? > > [[ now all us old guys can contribute our "I used to compute with 1 > bit" stories, right?]] > > I prefer to go optimistic. I'm looking at Qt to see what it would take > to have it drive libdraw on linux, just out of curiosity. If Qt can > work on libdraw, I wonder if it could ever be native to Plan 9. > > Hey, if we got Qt on Plan 9, we might actually have a GUI that people > don't hate right away ... then we can slowly, gradually suck them into > the system ... slowly ... gradually ... until they're running rio > without noticing ... > > ron