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 and RISC OS.

See menuitis, user-obsequious, window system.



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context-sensitive menu
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fifth generation language
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 WIMP environment
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