>neither rio or acme will work well on a cell phone.

i think that's probably true of rio, but while i had an ipaq running
inferno, i used acme exclusively and i'm not so sure about the
unsuitability of its overall approach.  i was using it without modification
and although there were undoubtedly things that could change to make that
smoother on such a device, i thought it was much less frustrating than my
Palm Pilot (old style), in the sense that acme gave an integrated feel whereas
Palm had the usual apps approach: `the screen is an address book' (ie, mostly 
text),
`the screen is a diary' (ie, mostly text), `the screen is a notebook' (ie, 
almost entirely text),
and `the screen is a sketchpad' (ie, caught you out there).  i could have
several things of different type in acme frames--possibly an untyped user 
interface
is more dynamic, compared to the `one at a time' feel of the Palm.

so many user interfaces got stuck in the mould of the Xerox desktop metaphor,
and have mouldered there ever since.

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