Re: Copy/Paste

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

Probably right.  I used WordStar back then and now, closing in on 30 years
later, it could still do something that modern word processors can't:
Select/copy/paste a rectangle of text.  A feature I found strangely
convenient back then.

WordStar needed no arrow keys, though they were supported.  IIRC you used
Control-I/J/K/M for up/left/right/down.  Any keyboard would do; the only
non-QWERTY key it needed was Control.  You didn't even need Enter/Return
since Control-M would work.

"Ran under DOS" And CPM and others.

"was fast" On an 8088 with 128K RAM & a single floppy drive.

"once you learned all the key combinations was really powerful." Good enough
for writing books.

I loved it & used it well into the WordPerfect days.


On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I think that goes all the way back to the character based Wordstar
> program.  Ran under DOS was fast and once you learned all the key
> combinations was really powerful.  WordPerfect came along and killed
> WordStar, along with IBMs Display Writer.  Then M$Word go to version two
> and it was all over but the crying......
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects
>
>
> On 8/4/2011 9:52 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:
> > Out of curiosity does anyone know who's bright idea it was to make C and
> V
> > (along with Ctrl) the Copy and Paste keys?  Okay, the C I understand, but
> > why V?  P was obviously taken by 'Print' but V doesn't make any sense.
>  For
> > about the fourth time today (and uncounted times in the past) I have
> > fat-fingered the Ctrl-C when I meant to paste.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jerry C. Adams
> >
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