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 > > -- Federico G. Benavento
