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Windows is quite an explicit lift of the interface design guidelines specified by IBM as Common User Access ( CUA ). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common
by LeFantome 3y ago
Windows is quite an explicit lift of the interface design guidelines specified by IBM as Common User Access ( CUA ).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
CUA predates NeXT by quite a lot and so the influence would mostly be going the other way.
CUA was the design paradigm chosen for OS/2, a joint project between IBM and Microsoft. When Microsoft started the Windows Project ( after OS/2 ) they pretty explicitly adopted CUA for it as well.