Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!

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From: hanc...
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:38

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On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 9:38:13 AM UTC-5, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> CTRL-S was used back in the day on ASR-33's with unix to stop output.   Control Q
> continues output.    Those functions live on today.

In timesharing days, the BREAK key on the Teletype was used to
stop output.  Some systems may have supported certain control
keys, but it varied by system.

Note that the BREAK key continued into the PC world, and to this
day still works to stop say a PC-DOS DIR listing.

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