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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Wordprocessists not typists?
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franz@csuchico.edu (Fran Holtsberry) writes:
> If a person who types is called a typist, what is the official
> designation for a person who does word processing?

	I would vote for "word processor".  I believe that, in the deep dark
past, "computer" referred to a person who did computations, not the machine
he or she used to do them.  This probably explains why the ACM uses the
somewhat odd (to modern ears) phrase "computing machinery" in their name; I
think at the time the ACM was formed, a "computer" was still a person.
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