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From: esf00@amdahl.UUCP (Elliott S. Frank)
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Subject: Operator's Introduction to the ... Terminal
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Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 17:46:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 27 17:46:12 1985
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From the "Operator's Introduction to the ... Terminal" (published
by a major vendor of terminals):

If this is the first time you will be using terminals and computers,
you may be doing things which we describe by new words, or by special
meanings we give to old words; here are a few of them:

System is a word that allows us to talk about things without knowing
too much about them.  A system is two or more things working together.
A horse and cart (or a pair of feet) working together make up a
transportation system; two people, two telephones, and the wires and
other things in between, make up a communication system; a head of
hair, a pair of scissors, ;and a barber make up a hair styling system;
and so on and on ...

Processing is used to mean doing something to something.  Cutting hair
is hair processing; cooking is food processing; making a computer work
on information (or data) is data processing.

[...]

Tele is Greek for far, as in television (a far away hallucination),
telephone (making noises at a distance), telescope (watching far away),
teleprocessing (processing at a distance), etc., etc.

[...]

Elliott S Frank    ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!esf00     (408) 746-6384

[the above opinions are strictly mine, if anyone's]

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