On 5/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But if ever there was a market born to take best advantage of Plan9's long
suit,
> handheld, or 'wearable' has to be the most obvious contender, and on power nd
> bandwidth consumption as much as CPU cycles or 'local' RAM capacity.
>
A friend and I are starting a project to create a simple wearable computer.
We've
got some hardware to get started; probably will begin with a laptop, our camera
viewfinder HMD, and a keyboard strapped around the waist (crude, I know) or
some form of home-brewed chording device. I considered using Plan 9, but since
we don't plan to include a pointing device yet, and the viewfinder can only
display
low resolutions and in black and white, I think we'll end up going with
something
designed to be used 80x24 characters at a time... Linux. If somebody can present
me with some good reasons to use Plan 9 instead, we can try it, but I really
don't think Plan 9 actually is ideal for a wearable.
What are your requirements that disqualify Plan 9? Or is just a "feeling"?
Coraid puts Plan 9 in their storage products. It's performing a
useful task, and you don't even need to know it's there. But it's
still powering the device.
Small and simple can still be beautiful and elegant :-)
John
--
- Passage Matthew 5:37:
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever
is more than these cometh of evil.
