From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <32d987d50903251714reea8442i97fca2e84dc0883a@mail.gmail.com> References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <32d987d50903251714reea8442i97fca2e84dc0883a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:24:32 -0400 Message-ID: <9ab217670903251724w528437abkc6b4fe44b31f542@mail.gmail.com> From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c54ee47a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2009/3/25 Federico G. Benavento : > do we need drawterm for the iphone? is anyone going to use it? > > I mean, it's a tiny screen, typing on handhelds sucks, plus is not > that there is killer app Plan 9 has that =A0you _must_ run. > > am I forgetting something obvious? Tiny screen, but reasonable resolution. Should find out who put it on the ideas page for GSoC; it wasn't me (so clearly somebody is interested). Besides, look at the DS port. Smaller screens, lower resolution (even combined, I think). Whether it's novelty or not isn't for me to say, but I can see how it would be useful. --dho