weird phrase “slash q-z” what does it means and why?

Question

Hi guys, I was recently browsing some quotes out of boredom, and saw one said by Jobs:

“The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.”

I can understand the meaning behind it but got curious about the phrase “slash q-z” as it seems not to be a common word and cannot find much about it on Google.

Edit: thanks for all the wonderful answers guys, it’s really interesting to look back see how far we’ve come from.

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Answer 1

Adding to the others: /qz was not the Wordstar exit key sequence. It was Ctrl+K Ctrl+X. Jobs was making up something that sounded nerdy-complicated, like how you might say, “Sure, it’s easy, just hit X double-right-click reverse lowercase q.” He may have gotten it wrong on purpose to make a point: “See, it is so complicated that even I, Steve Jobs, can’t be bothered to learn it.”