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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (202755)9/17/2004 9:13:56 PM
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Secondly, it was a design goal of Word to match existing office typewriter output to give a familiar appearance. So the fact that Word's output is similar to a typewritten document should come as no great surprise.

The point is that it isn't that similar to a typewritten document. It doesn't match the samples in Dr. Buffard's database from any thousands of types of typewriters that where available at or before the early 70s.
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