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Larry Tesler, the image on the PC Forum, 1989, worked to computers died more accessible

Larry Tesler, a Symbol of early computing, has at the age of 74 years.

Mr Tesler began in Silicon Valley in the early 1960s, at a time when computers are still inaccessible for the vast majority of people.

It was thanks to its innovations - the copy of the "cut" and "paste" commands That The Personal computer was easy to learn and use.

Xerox, where Mr Tesler spent part of his career, paid tribute to him.

"The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more, was tweeted by the former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler," The Company said. "To make your work easier thanks to its revolutionary ideas. "

Mr Tesler, who was born in The Bronx , New York , in 1945, studied at Stanford University in California.

After graduating, he specialized in the user-interface-design - this is what Computer Systems more user-friendly.

He worked for A Number of large tech companies during his long career. He began at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Parc), before Steve Jobs poached him to Apple, where he for 17 years and rose to become the "chief scientist".

After leaving Apple, he created a training and worked for a short time at Amazon and Yahoo.

In 2012, he was the BBC, of the Silicon Valley , said: "It's been almost Passage a rite - That you have made some money, you don't pull back, you spend your time, the financing of other companies.

"to share, It is a very strong element of suspense to what you have learned with the next generation. "

'counter-cultural vision"

Perhaps Mr Tesler's most famous innovation, The Cut and paste command, was allegedly on the basis of the old method of editing, in which people would physically cut parts of the printed text and paste them elsewhere

The command was included in the Apple software on the Lisa computer in 1983 and the original Macintosh That was released The Following Year .

Mr Tesler, photographed in 1991, developed the "copy and paste" command

A Mr Tesler was the most solid beliefs That Computer Systems should stop using "modes" which are frequently used in software design at the time.

"modes" the user switch between functions, the software and apps but the computers of the time-consuming and complicated.

So strong is this faith, That the Lord said Tesler website "nomodes. com," his Twitter handle "@nomodes", and even his car number plate, No was was"".

in Silicon Valley : the Computer History Museum , said Mr. Tesler "combined Computer Science education with a counter-culture vision That computers should be the same for all".

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Source of news: bbc.com