But when computers are linked into work stations part of a system word processing becomes a control-related technology.
In the 1980s, with the introduction of word processing programs like WordPerfect, it became apparent that computerized proofreaders could come to the rescue of struggling spellers and bad typists.
This was the era where, for the first time, the theorietical power computers could bring us (think number-crunching, word processing, photo editing, and gaming) became accessible in a standalone device small enough to put on a desk and affordable enough that small businesses and individual consumers could buy one.
"I think we will become every bit as indispensable as word processing," says Williams, 28.
After departing Facebook three years later, he became co-founder and CEO at mobile word processing company Quip.
It became firm-wide religion to use Google's word processing and spreadsheet applications instead of Word and Excel.
Other word processing companies quickly followed, and in the last half-decade grammar checking has become a technological backwater.
Hence the main use became to complement tape releases, usually utilities and niche products like the Tasword word processing software and Trans Express, (a tape to microdrive copying utility).
With tasks like e-mail and word processing now migrating from the PC to the Internet, analysts and industry players think the browser will soon become even more valuable and strategically important.
The Cube runs the Macintosh operating system, which will become a lot more interesting when Mac OS X, which can handle everything from digital-video editing to word processing, comes out next year.
Are there any programs (chat, word processing, etc).
