ASCII/ANSI GUI book

[Guido]

Hello Jonathan

The terms "GUI" and "text windowing" are not compatible, because GUI stands for /graphical/ user interface. In the time before GUIs ASCII was standard. With Windows ANSI became standard in the PC world. But I don't know for pre Windows 3 I have to admit.

The text windowing UI thing is often connected to a programing language. I don't see any connection to a language in your post. Do remember such a connection?

Another thing could be the publisher of the book. Most of them had an unique design for there books. Maybe you remember something about?

And when saw you the book in the store?

I've programmed several text UIs on PC-/MS-DOS then using multiple languages. And I remember such a book I had then too. As far as I remember it was not connected to a programming language but deeply described the concept. It could be a book from Microsoft Press because I had some of them but I'm not sure. Wait, maybe the abbreviation "SAA" could be part of the title (stands for systems application architecture, an IBM thing from the early 80th).

Best wishes - Guido