WIMP

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WIMP

1. Computing windows, icons, menus (or mice), pointers: denoting a type of user-friendly screen display used on small computers

2. Physics weakly interacting massive particle

(operating system)

WIMP - 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.

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They wouldn't have allowed it; they wouldn't have supinely given in, and allowed the word of God to be trampled on, as some wimps in this state's misbegotten govern merit have done.

Fighting back by Darcy, Richard T. / The New American

THIS NEXUS OF POWER INTERESTS WORRIED A LIBERAL WIMP like Dwight Eisenhower so much he got off his deathbed to warn his fellow Americans about it in 1961.

There's no defense for this budget: America's empire has been ... by Clarke, Kevin / U.S. Catholic

We need a general who develops a party strategy and who will read the riot act to these wimps when they cannot find the backbone to speak up.

Tough enough? (Letters) by Washington Monthly

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