Excellent, Liam, and thanks greatly for posting. I would try keeping up with all that you write but there are an insufficient number of hours in a day.
Al Whealton On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 8:23 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > 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 >
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