[ih] cut and paste

[John Day]

I had always thought, given that it was Apple and they were wired into the group around Menlo Park, that cut-copy-paste was a reference to the keyset for NLS. That one (generally) used the mouse with the right hand, and keyed commands with the left. Many of Englebart’s people went on to PARC, so that would make sense. I have no evidence. But those shortcuts were in the Lisa and the early Macs.

John

> On Aug 7, 2023, at 17:30, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> There has been a spate of FB postings, reminding folk that Larry Tesler created cut and paste.
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> 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.
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> Anyone care with resolve the confusion?
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