type vs enter

[Combs, Richard]

Neeraj Jain wrote: 
 
> Type should be associated only with typewriter. A typewriter (assuming a
> manual
> one) does not store anything. It just types on paper.

You really believe that? Then you're distinctly in the minority. 

Virtually nobody uses a typewriter anymore, and yet there are still lots of typing classes. Mavis Bacon still teaches typing via her software. There are even free online touch-typing programs. Google "teach typing software" (sans quotes) to see just how much "typing" is associated with what people do on a computer keyboard. 
 
> In case of computer, saying type would be obsolete because you enter data
> in
> computer memory and a computer user is more familiar with the word enter.
> 
> Were you writing XYZ in bold?

No, he was _typing_ uppercase letters. :-) 


Richard G. Combs
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Polycom, Inc.
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