JrMasterModelBuilder Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 This question crossed my mind the other day and, very unusually, Google was unable to answer it for me. It's more of a curiosity than anything, but does anybody happen to know the first operating system to have a system clipboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoctor Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 This sounds like a thinly disguised test/project/etc question. Oh well. It doesn't sound like something would be recorded in the history books though. One would think the first OS that had keyboard shortcuts though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addictgamer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 I'm going to assume it's windows 3.0 or something, since Linux in a tty has no clipboard afaik, thus meaning Unix didn't either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig9292 Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 I keep thinking windows 2.0, for some reason being the first to have the "Control Panel" makes me think it had the first copy/paste features as well. I dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJobless Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Probably Windows 3.0. And if someone comes up with the official answer as being Windows ME, there will be no barbie for them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig9292 Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Windows ME. Just saying it makes me chuckle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JrMasterModelBuilder Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 Windows 2.0 definitely had a clipboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0 Is it at all possible that a Macintosh was the first? Strange. Considering it's probably one of the greatest ideas of all computing, if it were my idea, I would be bragging about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oboe Shoes Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 My Dad has a friend that might know, I'll have him ask next time he sees him. He's worked with some pretty robust operating systems before windows, that never made it to market, that might have had one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJobless Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Just a quick thing...has anyone else noticed that there are two typos in the heading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acmex Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 You're all insane. The first OS to properly use the desktop metaphor as we know it was the Xerox Alto/Star, which also included the now ubiquitous mouse, clipboard, keyboard shortcuts, ect. Which Apple copied, and then everyone copied it. Before that point most TEXT EDITORS had it, though I don't know if it was system-wide as most are now. Also Unix doesn't have a system wide clipboard because it wasn't designed or built to be single user. You were SUPPOSED To access it through a remote terminal, which would have it's OWN copy and paste buffer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aLPHA Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 LOL 1973 computer with a GUI and mouse The screen is very odd on it, it's display is very sharp and it looks like...paper. It's just black or white. Interesting... What's also funny about that computer is that it uses a 16 bit microcontroller based off of a TI processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oboe Shoes Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 You're all insane. The first OS to properly use the desktop metaphor as we know it was the Xerox Alto/Star, which also included the now ubiquitous mouse, clipboard, keyboard shortcuts, ect. Which Apple copied, and then everyone copied it. Before that point most TEXT EDITORS had it, though I don't know if it was system-wide as most are now. Also Unix doesn't have a system wide clipboard because it wasn't designed or built to be single user. You were SUPPOSED To access it through a remote terminal, which would have it's OWN copy and paste buffer. Ah. I was thinking it was a Xerox thing, but I wasn't completely sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JrMasterModelBuilder Posted August 6, 2011 Author Share Posted August 6, 2011 You're all insane. The first OS to properly use the desktop metaphor as we know it was the Xerox Alto/Star, which also included the now ubiquitous mouse, clipboard, keyboard shortcuts, ect. Which Apple copied, and then everyone copied it. Before that point most TEXT EDITORS had it, though I don't know if it was system-wide as most are now. Also Unix doesn't have a system wide clipboard because it wasn't designed or built to be single user. You were SUPPOSED To access it through a remote terminal, which would have it's OWN copy and paste buffer. Ok, cool! Just a quick thing...has anyone else noticed that there are two typos in the heading? Yes, I did. I just can't fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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