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



About 40 really. Mac OS and IBM CUA… early to mid 80s. Motif, late 80s.


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.


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.




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