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WIMP ENVIRONMENT [1 record]

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Record 1 1995-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

A windowed environment with icons and an on-screen cursor to facilitate the selection of commands, files, etc. The opposite is a command-line environment. (J.J. Manger, The Essential Internet Information Guide, Mc Graw-Hill, 1994, p. 351).

OBS

An interface program invented at Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC). Compare to other computer command systems such as GUI-graphical user interface (pronounced gooey), and CLI (pronounced see-ell-eye) for command-line interface, that Microsoft has seen fit to rename as CUI - command-user-interface (pronounced cooey).

Key term(s)
  • GUI
  • CLI
  • CUI

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
  • Infographie
OBS

Environnement utilisateur-icône-souris-fenêtre.

Spanish

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