Talk:IBM Systems Application Architecture

New Standards
I was at GUIDE (note that there should be a page for Guide separate from Share) the day SAA was announced. As I recall, SAA did define new standards, including a new standard for an operating system and OS/2 is an implementation of the operating system. I need to find material to support this and I hope to do that. Sam Tomato (talk) 20:48, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * That would be great. GUIDE has sort of gone off the radar generally since they disbanded -- It would be nice to get anything from there.
 * Apparently there now is.Sam Tomato (talk) 01:45, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Also, the article says "OS/2 Presentation Manager was a full implementation of the SAA presentation interface" but OS/2 did not exist prior to the announcement of SAA. When SAA was first announced, OS/2 was also announced as an operating system to be developed. Microsoft assisted in the development of OS/2 prior to developing Windows NT. Sam Tomato (talk) 01:42, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

SAA an alternative meaning
At an SAA seminar, a speaker said that internally they called SAA  S cratching  A kers  A ss. This could indicate that John Akers was somehow involved with SAA, I think. --FredTC (talk) 13:37, 22 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure. It is typical for people to criticize things they don't understand. Sam Tomato (talk) 04:46, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Microsoft Universal Windows Platform
The "Common user access" section says "A user who sits down at a PC should see the same menus, keyboards and procedures that he would at a 3270 terminal." except now the devices are PCs, tablets, phones and such. Sam Tomato (talk) 04:54, 16 July 2017 (UTC)