On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 at 23:34, Eric Auer via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Interesting that MS Word for DOS looks a bit like EDIT, but > with char style highlighting and a graphical preview :-D
Well, yes. They are both Common User Access apps. MS Word for DOS up to v5.0 used its own UI, but 5.5 switched to become a CUA app. MS-DOS EDIT, Qbasic, the MS Quick* languages, etc. all have standard CUA interfaces. It wasn't just an IBM/MS thing. Borland's Turbo* languages used it too, and WordPerfect 5.x and 6.x for DOS have a CUA interface, along with many other 1990s DOS apps. IBM CUA is the standard UI for IBM SNA systems, DOS, OS/2, Windows, and has also been adopted for most Linux desktops as well. There's a history on Wikipedia -- I wrote most of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access Last year I helped find and recover the original IBM books, get them converted to moden formats and put them on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ibm-saa-cua-basic-interface-design-guide Before they were only in an IBM format called .BOO: https://archive.org/details/f29bdg00 I wrote an article about it earlier this year: https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/rise_and_fall_of_cua/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
