Re: Larry Tesler - Computer Pioneer

2020-02-20 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 2/20/2020 8:52 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: Heard of death today of Larry Tesler Does ANYONE bother to read the list before posting? Your post was the first I saw of it, but the media, including computer related is still treating it as news even this afternoon. A huge list like

Re: Larry Tesler - Computer Pioneer

2020-02-20 Thread Frank McConnell via cctalk
On Feb 20, 2020, at 20:52, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote (after Murray McCullough): >> Heard of death today of Larry Tesler > > Does ANYONE bother to read the list before posting? Am thinking of LISTSERV, which includes a SET NOMAIL option to save one the trouble. Wonder if you can do that with

Re: Larry Tesler - Computer Pioneer

2020-02-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
> Heard of death today of Larry Tesler Does ANYONE bother to read the list before posting?

Larry Tesler - Computer Pioneer

2020-02-20 Thread Murray McCullough via cctalk
Heard of death today of Larry Tesler, pioneer worker at Xerox Parc. He advanced the era of human-computer interaction. He 'created' copy- and-paste and cut-and-paste which made everyday computing in DOS-age easier before GUI-age made mouse-driven commands easier on computer users. Early pioneers