On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:54:57PM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> One nice thing about drawterm is it lets you export the iphone's
> interfaces to Plan 9 -- that could lead to much more interesting
I doubt you'll be able to do that with the insane restrictions Apple puts on
officially-sanctioned apps. You'd have to work via the iPhone jailbreak to
expose anything other than a very small, sandboxed directory on the phone via
drawterm.
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Federico G. Benavento
> >
> >
>
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