From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <32d987d50903251739n8c9210n517f0a25e094c14b@mail.gmail.com> References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <32d987d50903251714reea8442i97fca2e84dc0883a@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670903251724w528437abkc6b4fe44b31f542@mail.gmail.com> <32d987d50903251739n8c9210n517f0a25e094c14b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:54:57 -0500 Message-ID: From: Eric Van Hensbergen 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: c563ae6e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 One nice thing about drawterm is it lets you export the iphone's interfaces to Plan 9 -- that could lead to much more interesting possibilities beyond typing at the shell. Probably a better approach would be to look at providing an octopus client for iPhone though... -eric On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: > ok, you can't compare porting inferno to the ds with drawterm for the iph= one > drawterm is an app to get to a Plan 9 server, inferno is a self contained > operating system where you can get the advantage of writing your > own apps for it. > > for this port to be useful you need 1) an iphone; =A02) a cpu server to c= pu > and 3) that killer app that makes want to drawterm from the iphone. > > I think writing that killer app, whatever that is makes more sense. > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Devon H. O'Dell = wrote: >> 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 >> >> > > > > -- > Federico G. Benavento > >