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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: X sucks
Message-ID: <15852@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 16 Apr 91 02:32:53 GMT
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In article <1991Apr13.173834.14543@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>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.

There is no need to have your user interface crunching numbers.
Indeed, the separation of such functions is much of what Plan 9
is all about.