Why are the keys named Ctrl & Alt?

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What are the origins of the control and alt keys?

I use these keys often as modifiers for shortcuts including the infamous copy and paste and some tab-switching but I don't understand why they're named Ctrl and Alt.

Why are they named the way they are?

Gio Borje

Posted 2011-05-23T06:17:53.930

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Question was closed 2011-05-23T13:03:55.303

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