Hello Russell and Rohan, Snip
The vast majority of computer use is not reading books or writing essays.
In the 80s there were dedicated wordprocessing PCs. Such things could appear on the market again.
I still have DECmates, a micro PDP8 that was a dedicated wordprocessor. Unfortunately they need major service before I would apply power, dried out electrolytics being the major issue. There were advantages, the (l)users did not need to understand a general command line OS, they had a text based menu, and provided they understood backing out to earlier menus, and reading the copious manual, they were very effective. I have daisy wheel printers of the same era, and sitting there a DEC LN03 laser printer, the OPC belt has probably aged too much, along with the toner, and possibly some of the electronics. I even have a genuine PDP8 that was a wordprocessor, complete with four 8" floppy drives, and the daisy wheel printer in a desk for it. Now put a suitable dedicated front end on Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi, and it could happen again, but a small and low power device.
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