X sucks

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Apr13.173834.14543 at decuac.dec.com> mjr at 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.