X sucks (was: Re: Ware Ware Wizardjin)
Marcus J. Ranum
mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com
Sun Apr 14 03:38:34 AEST 1991
root at 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.
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