12 Apr
2007
12 Apr
'07
11:13 p.m.
Actually you were right the first time - Windows,
Icons, Mouse and Pull-down menu - or atleast according
to the guy demonstrating the Amiga (1000?) on BBC
Micro Live (from 1984/5). Find the video for it on
YouTube, or i will post the link to it tonight when im
on my laptop. - Andrew B (via mobile phone)
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<classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk> wrote:
>...."WIMP" for Windows, Icons, Menus and
Pulldowns
(or was it
"Pop-ups" or "Pointers"?)....
"W"indows, "I"cons, "M"ouse, "P"ointer
TTFN - Pete.
13 Apr
13 Apr
3:20 a.m.
On 13/04/2007 07:13, Andrew Burton wrote:
Actually you were right the first time - Windows,
Icons, Mouse and Pull-down menu - or atleast according
to the guy demonstrating the Amiga (1000?) on BBC
Micro Live (from 1984/5).
But you don't need a mouse, specifically; it could be any pointing
device. And many systems use context-sensitive pop-up menus that are
not pull-down. The original acronym was for Windows Icons Menus and
Pointer.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
1:12 p.m.
Hi,
Actually you were right the first time - Windows,
Icons, Mouse and Pull-down menu - or atleast according
to the guy demonstrating the Amiga (1000?) on BBC
Micro Live (from 1984/5)....
Interesting, all of the magazine articles I remember reading in the mid-80's
(and indeed our lecturer on "Human-Computer Interfaces" at Polytechnic) used
the definition of "WIMP" I gave above.
This was in the days of GEM, MAC "Finder", Amiga "Workbench" etc.
Just had a quick look on Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_%28computing%29, and it seems that both
definitions are equally valid. Learn something new every day. :-)
TTFN - Pete.
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