On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 01:47, Mike Katz via cctalk <cctalk@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. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven • Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702-829-053