[Tlhingan-hol] Puns!

[SuStel]

On 11/7/2015 9:31 PM, lojmIt tI'wI' nuv 'utlh wrote:
> In Wordstar, one of the earliest word processor programs, the
> commands all used the Control key followed by a letter from a word in
> a menu. Usually, it was the first letter, like “C” in “Copy”, but in
> this case “moVe” was the command to paste from what would later be
> called the clipboard, though that term had not been invented yet for
> this function. The reason that MS Word and Windows use Control V for
> paste is that Bill Gates used to use WordStar. Steve Jobs used it,
> too, so Command-V does the same function in Mac OS X.

According to Wikipedia, it was the programmers at Xerox PARC who came up 
with Control-V as Paste.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-V>

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