[ih] cut and paste

Bob Purvy bpurvy at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 14:41:42 PDT 2023


what's weird is, they don't seem to realize that he died months ago.

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 2:30 PM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> There has been a spate of FB postings, reminding folk that Larry Tesler
> created cut and paste.
>
> My confusion is that I'd swear Tenex (and maybe Top-10 and maybe one or
> another system at MIT) had ctl-C and ctl-V and probably ctl-X in the
> earliest 1970s, if not earlier.  References to Tesler's innovation say
> it was at Parc.
>
> Anyone care with resolve the confusion?
>
> d/
>
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