29 Sep
2021
29 Sep
'21
9:27 a.m.
On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 01:47, Mike Katz via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Control-C, Control-X & Control-P for copy, cut and paste in Windows 11
dates back to Wordstar on 8-Bit CPM systems in the 80s.
No they didn't. They came from the Mac:
https://ieee-isto.org/isto-blog/standards-for-cut-copy-and-past/
The Windows standard _was_ Shift-Del to cut, Ctrl-Ins to cut,
Shift-Ins to paste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste#Cut_and_paste
Nobody could remember it, including CUA evangelist me -- I had to look
that up -- so they switched to PC-ified Mac standard.
TBH I can't remember when; I am not sure but it might have been in
Windows 3.0, the first release after the divorce from IBM.
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