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In article <1992Jan21.152728.16754@midway.uchicago.edu> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes:
>) John Gilmore:
>) >Secretaries all over the world use Emacs, ...
>
>
>Kee "my knee is jerking" Hinckley, who by the way seems to be including
>a small commercial advertisement with his every message:
>) You are dreaming.  Secretaries all over the world know how to use
>) typewriters and maybe Microsoft Word.  Secretaries all over the world
>) think Unix is someone who had a nasty accident. 
>
>Kee, you have no experience with *this* piece of the world.  Secretaries
>here use unix, emacs, and tex.

University secretaries are rarely career clericals.  People do not usually
gravitate to low-paying jobs at intellectual centers who are not motivated
at least partially by the promise of learning.  On the other hand, most
secretaries I have worked with in indistry are valued for their ability to
turn out simple chores quickly, and the last thing they want to know is how
to program a typesetter or how to indent source code properly...
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