Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors

Hi :)
Oh wow yeah.  Those "green screens" where you could see the individual dots making up the screen.  
The strange greeness a tunnel through to far away places.  
Regards from
Tom :) 





> ________________________________
> From: James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>
> To: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 16:05
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors
>
> Brian Barker wrote:
> > I think you are missing the different functions of the two sorts of software.
>
> Page Up & Page Down go back to the days of dumb terminals connected to a mainframe or minicomputer 
> and a page referred to a full screen of data.  Back in the late '70s & early '80s I used to 
> support some terminals connected to a Data General Nova minicomputer, where all the editing was 
> done on the Nova.  About the only editing you could do directly on the terminal was inserting & 
> deleting characters.  The page keys would move the display through the document, with only a small 
> amount of overlap, that is with a Page Down, the bottom line on the old screen would become the 
> top line on the new.  The reverse occurred with Page Up.  There was no mouse either, just cursor 
> keys, though another system I worked on used a joy stick.
>
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