Tom Walker wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

-> CA> Word processors and scalable fonts gave everyone the impression
-> CA> they were 'publishing' and not just typing. ;-)

-> I don't know if they started it or not,  but I blame WordStar (!)
-> for using the word "document" to describe the file...     :-)

 TW>  What is to Blame. A Doculent is Exacticaly what it is. A page of
 TW> Information has been refered to as a "Document" since Before even
 TW> the Typewriter hasn't it??

I don't know,  there are lots of different words out there that all refer
to collections of words,  on paper or otherwise.  I think that the choice
of "Document" is a rather unfortunate one,  as it has
connotations that don't need to be associated with all text files.  A bit
pompous,  at the very least.

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