From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Paul Lalonde To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <326364c20903252024s3560fa97q81eacdbf06a6d9cc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:32:03 -0700 References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <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> <326364c20903252024s3560fa97q81eacdbf06a6d9cc@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c760b6c6-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 iJuke ;-) On 25-Mar-09, at 8:24 PM, Tom Lieber wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen > wrote: >> I think rio is probably not useful, but a purely text based >> environtment >> isn't interesting either... > > The only thing I could see anyone using this for is if they wrote an > iPhone-tailored UI for controlling... something... and needed to > control it sometime between leaving their work computer and arriving > at their home computer. Not having this phone I couldn't care less > whether drawterm is ported, but allowing others to make mobile > interfaces for their stuff without needing a developer license and > without having to learn anything outside the 9 universe doesn't sound > like a bad deal. > > -- > Tom Lieber > http://AllTom.com/ >