[Bradford] Cut and paste

[Alice .]

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




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On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, 23:39 John Robert Hudson via Bradford, <
bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
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