Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

2016-09-30 Thread John Weaver
It's not the bandwidth, it's the latency. I have been playing around with this for a few weeks now. I have it working on T60 that has the kernel, 9fat and a cfs partition locally with the root on a vps 80ms away. There are pros and cons vs drawterm to the same machine. Things that I have not

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

2016-09-30 Thread Steve Simon
I have a Pi at work and a dual atom file/cpu/auth/etc server at home. it works well, it takes a few seconds to authenticate but is quick once you are connected. I boot from the pi's flash so I don't really have a terminal but I keep almost nothing in the Pi. -Steve > On 30 Sep 2016, at

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

2016-09-30 Thread Chris McGee
It would be interesting to hear how this works out in practice. The bandwidth requirement is probably so low compared to typical traffic from a hotel, compared even to smart phones. > On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:49 PM, James A. Robinson wrote: > > Is anyone here using Plan 9

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

2016-09-30 Thread hiro
> I have a Pi at work and a dual atom file/cpu/auth/etc server at home. it > works well, it takes a few seconds to authenticate but is quick once you are > connected. what's etc server? where is root, on the fs at home? or do you just cpu in or mount your user's directory from the fs at home?

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

2016-09-30 Thread hiro
since i've never been in a cheap motel room with a keyboard and usable 3-button mouse i tend to just carry my thinkpad around with me that has a usable inbuilt mouse and keyboard in addition to a display.

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

2016-09-30 Thread Erik Quanstrom
he he.  Puerto Toledo ftw!

[9fans] Terminal possibliities...

2016-09-30 Thread James A. Robinson
Is anyone here using Plan 9 as a terminal to connect to remote CPU / File servers over the internet to get work done? If I set up a small Plan 9 cluster at home, I'm thinking it'd be pretty neat to be able to connect to the network at home over the internet. While I have a laptop and could put

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

2016-09-30 Thread James A. Robinson
Yeah, and and I wonder how the little Raspberry Pi compares to hardware that was being used for terminals back in the late 90s. It's certainly got more memory and local storage available than many personal computers, though I imagine the i/o bus is slower. Digging around in my email I found this