X11 bashing

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1991Apr18.014319.8272 at decuac.dec.com> mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
> 	do an "lpq" on a machine with a few PostScript printers.

Do the same on any system with the capabilities of postscript and bitmapped
printers. Even nastier. And that's basically what X is to NeWS.

> 	PostScript can produce spiffy images, for sure, but it's just
> too easy to produce 100K worth of glop to print a page.

Anyone have net stats on traffic generated by NeWS versus X?

> system is a savings, but you have to make sure that your applications
> are not stupid about doing the PostScript equivalent of bells and
> whistles.

Yes, you don't want to MacDink your server to death. Though pie menus
*are* neat.
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