if you just remember that all the classic unix-editors were used by secretaries/data input persons picked right from the typewriter, that's not surprising at al

if you just remember that all the classic unix-editors were used by secretaries/data input persons picked right from the typewriter, that's not surprising at all. What's surprising is that this insight was so fully eradicated by years of IBM/MS/Apple-marketing (except for the lone warehouses still running on IBM mainframes with terminal frontends)...