9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
12:17 p.m.
Second, iPhones and iPads are UNIX machines! They
have a shell. You
have to do a little work to get to it the first time, but that takes all
of five minutes.
Thanks for the information. My friends with such machines have told me
that they run unix under the graphical front end, but that it's locked
down and you can't get to it. I was obviously misinformed.
I have a C compiler running on my iPhone. That was
correctly worded:
I don't mean "I compile stuff on my desktop machine to run on my
iPhone", I mean, I can fire up a shell prompt ON my
disconnected-from-the-world iPhone, start emacs (running it ON the
iPhone), write ordinary UNIX/posix C code, compile it (again, ON the
iPhone), and execute it. When it's connected to a network, I can ssh
*into* the iPhone and do the same.
RIght...
-tony