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I was thinking about Plan9 lately, and Mobile is THE platform for it...i think. Since you are ~always online, how cool would it be when your phone is just the
by nix23 6y ago
I was thinking about Plan9 lately, and Mobile is THE platform for it...i think. Since you are ~always online, how cool would it be when your phone is just the terminal, the CPU/File/Authentication-Servers sitting in the DC, is that the future?
- mch82 6y agoJust read about Plan9 the other day. It’s just been donated as open source. Edit: Wikipedia overview, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs MIT licensed as of March 23, https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=161650489113326 https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=161650489113326
- drybjed 6y agoThere is/was a Hellaphone[1] project, based on Inferno, a Plan 9 successor. There are also some slides[2] and a video demonstration[3] available. [1]: https://jfloren.net/b/2015/8/18/2 https://jfloren.net/b/2015/8/18/2 [2]: https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-20/dc-20-presentations/Floren/DEFCON-20-Floren-Hellaphone.pdf https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-20/dc-20-presentations/... [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_-jQc53jw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_-jQc53jw
- nix23 6y agoYeah watched that already, the phone that deletes itself when G-Force is to high. But they missed the great opportunity that inferno/plan9 could have given (phone=terminal and nothing more)