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From: thanatos@pro-graphics.cts.com (Steve Godun)
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Subject: Re: Wordprocessists not typists?
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Date: 15 Aug 90 23:56:18 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from franz@csuchico.edu

According to my classifications, a typist is one who works with the common
everyday typewriter (vague, I'll elaborate). If you sit down in front of a
typewriter, put in a piece of paper and type whatever you need to type, that's
"typing" and, hence, you're a typist. If you sit down in front of a computer
or a dedicated word processor and do whatever you need to do, you're a word
processor. What's the difference? Equipment and knowledge of that equipment,
mostly. Typists rarely have to deal with things like font changes, differences
in line length, justification, spelling and grammar checkers, etc.

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