Steve,
You are giving away your age. Yes it was an IBM standard. SAA
stood for System Application Architecture. It defined
meaning/functions for keys. It defined standard
meaning/functionally to keyword such as END, STOP, EXIT ETC. No
keyword was allowed to have dual meaning. In my mainframe
consulting days aI worked on many system platforms and used a
wide variety of sofrward. It was very frustrating trying how to
remember exit from a progra. Was the command EXIT or was it
STOP or was it QUIT. You get the idea.
A lot of people think that Microsoft was responsible for
standardizing the graphical user interface but as indicated by
the following it Really was IBM.
"NUMBER 292-114
DATE 920303
TYPE Programming
TITLE IBM SAA COMMON USER ACCESS CONTROLS LIBRARY/2 VERSION
1.0
ABSTRACT IBM SAA (TM) Common User Access (TM) Controls
Library/2
Version 1.0 provides a set of CUA (TM) 91 graphical
user interface
controls for OS/2 (R) Version 1.3 and Microsoft (1)
Windows (2)
Version 3.0 applications. With these controls, users
can now have
consistent Common User Access applications across
OS/2 Version 2.0,
OS/2 Version 1.3 and Windows Version 3.0. In
providing the
Presentation Manager (R) Application Programming
Interface (API) for
the SAA CUA 91 architecture, Common User Access
Controls Library
aides in migration from OS/2 Version 1.3 and Windows
Version 3.0 to
OS/2 Version 2.0. For OS/2 Version 1.3 users, the
controls provided
by Common User Access Controls Library include
container, value set,
notebook, slider, file dialog and font dialog. For
Windows
Version 3.0 users, the controls provided by Common
User Access
Controls Library include spin button, container,
value set, notebook,
slider, file dialog and font dialog.
IBM SAA Common User Access Controls Library/2
Version 1.0 has
National Language Support for the following
languages: Canadian
French, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German,
Italian, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, United Kingdom English,
and United
States English. DBCS enablement is provided for
Japanese (Kanji),
Korean (Hanguel), and Traditional Chinese. DBCS
language translation
is provided for Japanese (Kanji) only. Product
documentation is
provided in United States English. National language
support is
provided as separate dynamic link libraries (DLLs) on
the diskettes
in the program package."
--- "Wills, Joseph S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not to take away from Wayne, Et Al., but I think they were
> bein'
> intelligent and foresightful, choosing to be consistent with
> what were,
> at the time, some IBM-developed standards for layouts and
> functions of
> keyboards. Wasn't it called something like CUA/SAA or
> something like
> that?
>
> Lemme' add that I am in the possession of 2 heavy duty,
> little-used, IBM
> PC/AT keyboards and they still have that "easy-press" little
> snap of the
> key. Don't know why, but I always liked those things. Of
> course, I
> haven't even attempted to connect 'em to anything, so I don't
> know if
> they still work or are compatible with anything. Still, it's
> my
> favorite keyboard. I also liked the AST keyboards, ca. 1989,
> which were
> also rugged, but a bit quieter than Big Blue's, of which I
> still have
> one.
>
> My $0.02,
> Steve in Memphis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Albert
> Berry
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 11:41 AM
> To: RBASE-L Mailing List
> Subject: [RBASE-L] - SV: Slightly off topic: New computer
>
> And, did you notice, that Wayne's crew laid out the function
> keys in
> R:Base to be really easy to use with the [F1] to [F8] down the
> left side
>
> of the keyboard? Note the convenient location of [Prev] and
> [Next].
>
> [F1] [F2]
> [F3] [F4]
> [F5] [F6]
> [F7] [F8]
>
> MikeB wrote:
> > I was ruined because I used my Northgate KB for about 7 or 8
> years
> until the kb
> > bios became incompatible. Function Keys all on the left
> side.
> Definitely
> > wouldn't want to receive a swat by one either..
> >
>
>
>
Jim Bentley
American Celiac Society
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: 1-504-737-3293
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