Anzio for the Iphone...

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008, John Esak wrote:
>Ah,,, yes, I believe there is some kind of vnc-like thing that runs Windows
>stuff.  I'm forgetting what it is called... maybe Parallels or something
>like that.  It's possible that might run Anzio... but still the keyboard
>questions remain.

Parallels is a virtual machine thing similar to VMware, and runs on the
Intel Macs.  I would be very surprised if it ran on the iPhone.

I have not done much with an iPhone, only set up e-mail for a friend of my
wife's which required setting up a gmail account for her as the iPhone
mailer could not deal with self-signed ssl certificates on the IMAP server.
If I remember correctly, the keyboard functions were pretty basic with only
upper and lower case alpha, numbers, and the normal set of special
characters.

Tom Yager's ``Ahead of the Curve'' blog at Infoworld has quite a bit of
good stuff about iPhone and competing portable devices.

The critical factor, other than keyboard, is that the applications have to
deal with the small screen size to be effective.  Applications like FilePro
that are designed for efficient keyboard entry (as opposed to web forms)
would probably not be a great match for iPhones or similar devices with
small screens and limited keyboards.

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far away, I wrote a termcap entry for the
Radio Shack Model 100 that allowed me to run ``vi'', but it was pretty
worthless for anything else.  I still have my Model 100 sitting in a closet
next to my HP-97 calculator (my wife calls me a pack rat :-).

Bill
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