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
<benave...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, you can't compare porting inferno to the ds with drawterm for the iphone
> 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; 2) a cpu server to cpu
> 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 <devon.od...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> 2009/3/25 Federico G. Benavento <benave...@gmail.com>:
>>> 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 you _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
>>
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> Federico G. Benavento
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