[Bradford] Cut and paste

[John Robert Hudson]

Dear all

Interesting that Larry Tesler (who has just died) is credited with inventing 
cut and paste in the 1980s because cut, copy and paste were available in 
WordStar in the 1970s.

The only difference appears to be that cutting on the Apple Lisa saved the 
text to a clipboard. In WordStar, cut just cut, paste automatically cut and 
pasted and copy pasted without cutting.

In WordStar you had the equivalent of the clipboard because your selected text 
remained highlighted until you unhighlighted it or made a new selection.

So perhaps he should be credited with inventing the clipboard, not cut and 
paste.

John