Cut & Paste
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This article is about the 1984 word processor. For other uses, see Cut and paste (disambiguation).
Cut & Paste is a word processor published in 1984 for Apple II series, Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, IBM PC compatibles, and IBM PCjr. It is one of the few productivity releases from game developer and publisher Electronic Arts, along with the contemporaneous Financial Cookbook.[2] In the UK it was distributed by Ariolasoft.[3]
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Developer(s) | Electronic Arts |
Initial release | 1984; 40 years ago (1984) |
Platform | Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, IBM PC, IBM PCjr |
Type | Word processor |
License | Proprietary software |
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Originally sold for US$50, Cut & Paste was praised for its user-friendliness and criticized as overly simplistic. Magazine advertisements proclaimed, "If you can learn to use this word processor in 90 seconds, can it really be any good?"[4] and the slogan on the box read "The Remarkably Simple Word Processor".[3]