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I'm assuming they mean the standard shared by every GUI app in every OS for the last 25 years.

• mixmastamyk 3y ago
  About 40 really. Mac OS and IBM CUA… early to mid 80s. Motif, late 80s.
  • PhasmaFelis 3y ago
    True, it's older than that, but I didn't recall exactly when it became universal across all significant contemporary OSes. I don't know what Amiga Workbench used, for example. Figured Win95-era was a conservative guess.
    • mixmastamyk 3y ago
      When the IBM PC took over basically, but interestingly they used the Mac as a starting point, since Microsoft had been using the keys. MS learned GUI programming on the Mac before they developed Windows. Hence the lawsuit Apple lost. Motif/CDE said “good enough” as well. IBM even backported some to its mainframes and minis.