Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!

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From: Andy Burns
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 20:22

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Quadibloc wrote:

> In 1999 Adrian Thompson wrote:
>
>> Can anyone out there tell me why Windows uses Ctrl-V as a keyboard
>> shortcut for Paste? 
> 
> Well, it was used for that back in the days of CP/M by WordStar

Did it? I thought ^V toggled between insert/overwrite mode in wordstar.

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