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May be so, but Turbo Vision was not a unique interface paradigm. It worked just like any CUA application of the era, with dialogs and widgets, tab/funcion keys
by mixmastamyk 3y ago
May be so, but Turbo Vision was not a unique interface paradigm. It worked just like any CUA application of the era, with dialogs and widgets, tab/funcion keys etc. Its "raison d'être."
- kragen 3y agoperhaps you intend to assert that turbo vision implemented the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access standard, or made it easy for applications to do so if so, that's news to me
- mixmastamyk 3y agoYes it did to a large extent, although I think some of the function key defaults were a bit different, probably from older Borland apps. But by and large converging on a singular CUA/MDI interface from Mac OS, Windows, IBM, Motif, QBasic, and TVision, in the late 80s. While not everyone got there 100% it did help tremendously that one could sit at a Mac/Win/Dos PC, Unix Workstation, or IBM mainframe and understand the application level interface immediately. We're sadly losing that as "smart" people decide to hide things from "dumb" people in terms of interface design.