I am not really thrilled with the term word processor, as it is not particularly descriptive of the sorts of things people actually want to do. Unlike the good old days'' when WordStar and Wang Word Processors wereking,'' these days, people don't process words;'' they want to build tables (that are not words), insert pictures (that are not words), include spreadsheets or graphs (that are not words). Evenback in the good 'ol days,'' people weren't really working with words;'' that is a task for a dictionary, thesaurus, or some other suchword'' manipulation tool. It was always ``documents'' that people wanted. -Donald Draper, Mad Men - "The Summer Man"

I am not really thrilled with the term word processor, as it is not particularly descriptive of the sorts of things people actually want to do. Unlike the ``good old days'' when WordStar and Wang Word Processors were ``king,'' these days, people don't process ``words;'' they want to build tables (that are not words), insert pictures (that are not words), include spreadsheets or graphs (that are not words). Even ``back in the good 'ol days,'' people weren't really working with ``words;'' that is a task for a dictionary, thesaurus, or some other such ``word'' manipulation tool. It was always ``documents'' that people wanted.

The term that I favor over ``word processing'' is document processing, as it more correctly describes the thing that people are actually working with.