On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:38:41 -0400, i18n@... <i18n@...> wrote:
[...]

> What people object to is your continued insistence that computers and
> writing systems as they relate to each other are off-topic,

If we were in the typewriter era, would discussions about typewriters be
annoyingly off-topic? How about dedicated (-purpose) electronic portable
word processors, like fancy electronic typewriters? The latter seem never
to have been commonplace, but they are definitely used only for writing,
afaik.

Regards,

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath
Who still hopes to read C.P. Snow about the two cultures.