[Swordmaker]

Larry Tessler, Inventor of Cut, Copy, and Paste Dies. Tessler, while with Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto’s Research Center (PARC) was instrumental in arranging Apple’s Steve Jobs’ visit which eventually resulted in the Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh computers with their graphical user interface. Tessler later jumped from PARC to Apple. —PING!

Larry Tessler, Inventor of Cut, Copy, and Paste Dies
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[Robert A Cook PE]

Now, how many remember “why” Tesler decided he could use Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-V, Ctrl-R, Ctrl-F and have those commands be so readily accepted by (now) billions of computer users?

Because he was a CTRL freak?

“Silly Rabbit” /bad commercial voice

No, no. 8<)
The ^ (upwards “V”) was every editor’s handwritten mark to “insert text here” on a piece of paper.

“X” removes the “lined out text”

So, if you are “inserting text”, you are either using “^” or “V” - and the ^ wasn’t on every keyboard yet or accepted in 80 character IBM punch cards since it was a “power of ten” command.

And, if you are inserting text, you must have either “Copied it” or “Cut it” first. to keep things more clear, C = Copy and X became “Cut it out” from “X it out”