WIMP

<operating system>

Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers (or maybe Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pull-down menus).

The style of graphical user interface invented at Xerox PARC, popularised by the Apple Macintosh and now available in other varieties such as the X Window System, OSF/Motif, NeWS, RISC OS and Microsoft Windows.

See menuitis, user-obsequious, window system.

Last updated: 2007-09-12

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William Hamilton ♦ William Joy ♦ WIMP ♦ WIMP environment ♦ win ♦ Win2K

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