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From: Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 and touch screens
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:59:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJQ9t7gtP_MXDDmE8VBJ86q6g9onU0a7Uv96b0RQLrcnvTD5rw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3568ce3776837bffd40901ecae2d01dc@hamnavoe.com>

On 6/24/21, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> Inferno can work quite comfortably with a touchscreen and a virtual
> "bitsy" keyboard. It's a different user interface from rio, but not
> horribly worse. Likely Plan 9 could be adapted to do the same.
>
And handwriting may have been discarded in the recent past, but it can
be brought back if, say, speech recognition won't work.

We've moved on and Plan 9 can catch up. If not, then I think
obsolescence looms large. But I don't think so, I think it just needs
the ability to absorb lessons from the ecosystem.

Lucio.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-24  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-23 19:11 [9fans] p9f mention of 9front hiro
2021-06-23 23:05 ` unobe
2021-06-23 23:35   ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-06-23 23:58     ` Romano
2021-06-24  4:06       ` Lucio De Re
2021-06-24  4:56         ` unobe
2021-06-24  5:52           ` Lucio De Re
2021-06-24 21:25             ` Wes Kussmaul
2021-06-24 23:29               ` silas poulson
2021-06-25 13:06                 ` Wes Kussmaul
2021-06-24  8:24         ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2021-06-24  9:25           ` [9fans] plan9 and touch screens Richard Miller
2021-06-24  9:59             ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2021-06-24 10:12           ` [9fans] p9f mention of 9front Philip Silva via 9fans
2021-06-24 16:05             ` unobe
2021-06-24 16:16             ` Ethan Gardener
2021-06-24 11:19   ` hiro
2021-06-24 15:01     ` AW: " sirjofri
2021-06-24 20:51     ` unobe
2021-06-25  8:28       ` Steve Simon
2021-06-25  9:31         ` Richard Miller
2021-06-25 12:41           ` [9fans] full fossil follies Richard Miller
2021-06-25 14:12             ` adr via 9fans
2021-06-25 15:17               ` tlaronde
2021-06-25 16:06                 ` adr via 9fans
2021-06-25 16:45                   ` adr via 9fans
2021-06-26  9:01                     ` Ethan Gardener
2021-06-25 17:23                 ` Iruatã Souza
2021-06-26  8:56                   ` Richard Miller
2021-06-26  8:34       ` [9fans] p9f mention of 9front Ethan Gardener
2021-06-26 12:55         ` noam

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