Re: GUI necessary?

[carl nelson <cgn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I would apreciate if someone, among the numerous very knowledgable people
on this list, could post a definition of GUI. 

Source: wwwebster dictionary:

Main Entry: graphical user interface
Function: noun
Date: 1988
: a computer program designed to allow a computer user to interact easily
with the computer typically by using a mouse to make choices from menus or
groups of icons 


Source: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Graphical User Interface
<operating system> (GUI) The use of pictures rather than just words to
represent the input and output of a program. A program with a GUI runs
under some windowing system (e.g. The X Window System, Microsoft Windows,
Acorn RISC OS, NEXTSTEP). The program displays certain icons, buttons,
dialogue boxes etc. in its windows on the screen and the user controls it
mainly by moving a pointer on the screen (typically controlled by a mouse)
and selecting certain objects by pressing buttons on the mouse while the
pointer is pointing at them. 

Though Apple Computer would like to claim they invented the GUI with their
Macintosh operating system, the concept originated in the early 1970s at
Xerox's PARC laboratory. 

Carl Nelson
NEI Communications, Inc.
Tel: 781-239-2949
Fax: 781-237-3657
Email: cgn@neicommunications.com
69 Temple Road
Wellesley, MA 02482

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