> 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
