Cursor
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A cursor is a moving marker or pointer that indicates a position. English-speakers have used the term with this meaning since the 16th century, for a wide variety of movable or mobile position-markers.
The literal meaning of the original Latin word cursor expresses the idea of someone or something that runs.
The word cursor may refer to any of the following:
- Cursors as used on slide rules.
- Cursors as used on typewriters.
- Cursors as seen in computers.
- Cursors as used in databases.
- Cursor was also the name of an early computer-based "magazine" that was distributed on cassette in the late 1970s. Each "issue" contained programs, utilities, and games and was a forerunner of today's computer magazines that come packaged with CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. Cursor was produced for users of the Commodore PET.