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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: X sucks (was: Re: Ware Ware Wizardjin)
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.173834.14543@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 13 Apr 91 17:38:34 GMT
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root@NEXTSERVER.CS.STTHOMAS.EDU (Max Tardiveau) concisely states the problem:

>[...] (PostScript). It does require more power to run, but is
>so much better, and machines are getting more powerful every day
>anyway.

	This is the issue. Window systems already hog to much power.

	"Machines are getting more powerful every day anyway" - and 
spending that power interpreting PostScript (best done by dedicated
hardware rather than my expensive RISC workstation) instead of crunching
the numbers I want crunched is not good.

mjr.