What does GUI stand for?

Graphical User Interface.An interface that has pictures as well as words on the screen.Originally invented by Xerox, the idea was expanded and popularized by Apple Computers.With windows, icons, pull-down menus, and the mouse, the graphical user interface is easier to learn and work with.
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Go You Idiot. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Guess you can tell I'am feeling better.

I thought so too goodmorphing. But GUI is NerdSpeak for that sticky, messy feeling the rest of the world calls 'gooey'.

Graphic User Interface. Basically u can click on icons to open programs instead of typing in Commands.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/ provides answers for acronyms of all shapes and sizes

Gruesome Ulcers Induced : when it all falls apart it's the land where GPF's and the Blue Screen of death hang just around the corner

talking of gooey, ive got a wb skin called just that.

who was it that coined the phrase?

Microsoft, Apple, or programmers in general?

I think it was programmers, but can not remember.... go figure

Neither MS nor Apple. Just nerd-talk in general.

lol, kinda what I was thinking but wasn't sure. I do remember a short time after GUI came Wysiwyg which everyone had to get in on.

Microsoft were actually late-starters in the realm of GUIs. Even the good old Amiga managed to get there before Microsoft 'borrowed' a lot of the ideas from everyone else to create Windows.

WYSIWYG = 'What You See Is What You Get'

An acronym coined around the time of the first 'visual' wordprocessors. Before this, you had to use a scripting language similar to HTML to create documents, and only got an idea of what your finished page would look like once you went to print it.

You are overly nice grayhaze. Stole would probably have worked better.

grayhaze, member Wordstar lol


or better yet " copy con >> config.sys" and crtl-z to break out and save...

windows is a bit different I guess :0

Yeah, different?

But for the better? Thats the question, isn't it?

IPlural: I still use copy con when doing simple batch files in windows.

But thank goodness we don't still have to use edlin!

"But for the better? Thats the question, isn't it?"

Given the alternative of the old single console screens? (without mucking things by say, bringing DesqView into it...)

Yeah. Very much so for the better, I think. ^.^

If for no other reason than I can have multiple console windows open at the same time now and watch each of them simultaneously!

I meant the copyright issues kthxbye.

Of course, GUI is anyday preferred, its easier and user friendly. But I wonder if there were as many apps for a free OS like Linux, how many would/ve opted for Windows...

I wasn't talkin bout GUI in general, only Windows...

Graphic User Interface League of Designers

or GUILD for short.