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[Ensor]

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.