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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers
Message-ID: <6314@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 26 Sep 89 18:55:53 GMT
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In article <9467@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>, phil@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Phil Meyer) writes:
> The problem is this:  Professionals view any work done on a keyboard as
> clerical, and therefore must be done by clerks.  This is the single greatest
> factor in keeping the Legal industry five to six years behind the times.

This is pretty amazing. The first commercial application for UNIX I ever
heard of was office automation in a law firm. Email was prominently
mentioned in the article, which I read in 1978 from an aged photocopy,
so it was probably 1977 or earlier. Was this a fluke? Anyone have more
information on it?
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-'
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 delusion now." -- brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)