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ted@telematics.com (Ted Goldblatt) writes:
>>Kee Hinckley writes:
>>) 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.

>Perhaps he should have said "Secretaries in the *real* world".  It may
>be that secretaries in academia or other sheltered (:-)) environments
>actually use Unix and "our" tools, but out here, they use PCs (running
>DOS, *maybe* with Windows) and some word processor, not emacs and a
>document formatter.

In this part of the "unreal world" (the University of Illinois CS
Department) the secretaries are in the process of switching from
emacs/TeX/unix to Macs running Microsoft Word et al. Unix and emacs were
pretty much judged a) too complicated and b) not well-suited to the
tasks required.

Disclaimer: I had no input on the decision either way.

--John

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