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.
 
(1995-05-02)
 
  
 
  
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