On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:58:32 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:14:30 -0500, Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> 
>> and doesn't say it definitively..
> 
> That's the part I'm having trouble with.  ISTR that WordStar predated
> Apple, and I'm pretty sure that those control codes (the ^K prefixed
> ones) were correct in WordStar.

Found a reference that confirms my memory - ^KV was "move" not "paste", 
but otherwise I recall pretty much correctly.

http://www.glinx.com/~grifwood/WSCOMSUM.PDF

WordStar was first developed for CP/M in 1978; Apple was founded in 1976 
(incorporated in 1977), so they may have beaten Wordstar to the punch 
there, though the bit you cited said it was popularlized in 1981 with the 
Lisa, so it's possible that they were following a modified version of 
WordStar's choices or they came up with them independently.

Jim

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