Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

[a z <rhoyerboat@gmail.com>]

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Ugh, I have to comment because to my noobness this sounds like an easy
project, and an easy project to over-think. Teach a java app how to draw
boxes like rio, and plug it in. Right?

I would love to use Rio on a touchscreen, unfortunately I need to eat. So if
I get that eating thing figured out Ill download Android SDK and make it
start reading data from what rio listens to and attaching markup to it.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:18 PM, erik quanstrom
<quanstro@labs.coraid.com>wrote:

> > 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
>
>


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