16.09.2025 20:05:56 Dan Cross <[email protected]>: > `drawterm` doesn't really qualify, in the sense that `drawterm` is a > program that runs under another, non-Plan 9 operating system. By > itself, drawterm can't really do much; one may think of it as a > program that emulates just enough of a plan9 terminal and its devices > (/dev/draw, mouse, keyboard) so that it can connect to a remote cpu > server, where all the actual work is done (including running e.g., the > window system). But it doesn't run programs on its own, and there is > no such thing as a "standalone drawterm".
In the last few weeks, I was thinking about how hard it would be to build an inferno drawterm. That is, implement all the necessary tools to interact with a plan 9/9front system in the way we know with (r)cpu and (r)import. That would mean that we can use inferno's graphical tools, but also run graphical Plan 9 tools on the CPU server, drawing to inferno's devdraw (simplified*). I think that would almost qualify as a terminal. sirjofri * Obviously, there's more needed than just devdraw. There's all the cons stuff, mouse and keyboard, and probably a few other devices. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf4bb650e9449e4d9-M762aa36e3b7dca7eeefddb32 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
