CURSOR: Programs for PET Computers was an early computer-based "magazine" that was distributed on cassette from 1978 and into the early 1980s. Each issue, consisting of the cassette itself and a short newsletter including a table of contents, contained programs, utilities, and games.

1. <hardware> A visually distinct mark on a display indicating where newly typed text will be inserted. The cursor moves as text is typed and, in most modern editors, can be moved around within a document by the user to change the insertion point. 2. <database> In SQL, a named control structure used by an application program to point to a row of data. The position of the row is within a table or view, and the cursor is used interactively so select rows from columns. (1996-12-27)

Cursor may refer to:

• Cursor (user interface), an indicator used to show the current position for user interaction on a computer monitor or other display device
• Cursor (databases), a control structure that enables traversal over the records in a database
• Cursor, a value that is the position of an object in some known data structure, a predecessor of pointers
• Cursor (slide rule), indicates corresponding points on scales that are not adjacent to each other
• Cursor Models, made for the Mercedes Benz Museum, and as promotional models
• Cursor (magazine), an early magazine distributed on cassette from 1978 and into the early 1980s
• Cursor, a holographic sidekick character from the TV series Automan

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In computer user interfaces, a cursor is an indicator used to show the current position for user interaction on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input from a text input or pointing device. The mouse cursor is also called a pointer,Mouse Pointer Behaves Erratically If Mouse Pointer Speed Is Set Above-Level Five owing to its resemblance in usage to a pointing stick.

<operating system> A feature (usually of {Graphical User Interfaces}) which causes the mouse pointer to leave a trail across the screen. This is done by keeping track of the last eight or so (maybe configurable) pointer positions, and only erasing the oldest. This means that at any time, there may be up to eight pointers on the screen, but if the mouse is still, they will all be in the same position, and so only one will be visible. When the mouse moves, it appears to leave a trail of pointers behind it, and this can dramatically increase the visibility of the pointer when using LCD screens. The older ones had such long persistence that a single mouse pointer, when moving, tended to be completely invisible, and on a cluttered screen, was very difficult to find. (1996-07-08)

The content-addressable network (CAN) is a distributed, decentralized P2P infrastructure that provides hash table functionality on an Internet-like scale. CAN was one of the original four distributed hash table proposals, introduced concurrently with Chord, Pastry, and Tapestry.