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Re: Old word processors

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From: Bob Eager
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:39
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On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:20:56 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote:

> On 3/18/2018 4:17 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> On 2018-03-17, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:36:23 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote:
>>>
>>>> Think of the word processors like an interpreter, and the text
>>>> formatter like a compiler.
>>>
>>> I can agree again. :-)
>> 
>> Q: What does a word processor do?
>> A: Well, you know what a food processor does to food...
>> 
>> 
> "If a train station is where a train stops, then what is a work
> station??"

Cue the one about baby oil.

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