23 Feb
2001
23 Feb
'01
12:32 a.m.
At 11:09 PM 2/22/01 -0800, Edwin P. Groot wrote:
My bets are Microsoft stole it from Apple. I
don't recall this from
WordStar, with its myriad of Ctrl key combinations. One problem with ^C in
CP/M and DOS is they would promptly take you to the OS prompt from most
programs.
That's an interesting question. Don't forget, Microsoft was and
still is a key developer for the Mac. There are plenty of Word
users on the Mac. My memory is that these keys were working
in Win 3.1, but I also existed on the Mac with cloverleaf instead
of control, of course. That sequence is in my Mac Word 5.0 from
December 1991, for example. I started seriously using and developing
under Windows 2.0, although I probably experimented with 1.x.
- John