GUI
Graphical environment of an operating system. The Windows and Macintosh operating systems use a GUI.
UNIX and DOS are command line operating systems.
An acronym for
Graphical
User
Interface, this term refers to a software front-end meant to provide an attractive and easy to use interface between a computer user and application, which historically gave rise to the icon-based operating system of Apple Corporation computers. The GUI concept actually had its origins in Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the early 1970s. However, it was Apple Corporation who eventually exploited the technology that is now the fundamental basis of Mac, Windows, and other GUI operating systems that perform commands based upon bit-mapped graphics icons. This paved the way for object-oriented systems of the 1990s. (See also
Mac and
Windows ) A decade of the revolution in GUI and hypermedia Mac computing is celebrated in a book by
Levy (1994) that is given an extensive review in Time Magazine, January 31, 1994, pp. 93-94. (See also
America Online )
GUI ( Graphical User Interface ) Pronounced âgooeyâ.An operating system interface between the user and the computer based on graphics.GUIs typically use a mouse or other tracking device and icons.First developed by XEROX as an easier to learn interface than text-based ones,it was adopted by Apple for the Macintosh,Microsoft for Windows,and even for unix systems as Xwindows.
A GUI (pronounced "gooey") is a graphics-based interface that lets you access programs by pointing to icons, buttons, and windows rather than by typing a string of commands at a command prompt.
Stands for "Graphical User Interface." The acronym is pronounced "gooey", not "gwi" or "gwee". It allows computer users to interact with their system by using a mouse instead of by typing in text at a command line. The two most popular operating systems -- Windows and the Mac OS -- are GUI based. The idea of a graphical user interface was first introduced by Apple with the Macintosh in 1984, but the idea was actually stolen from Xerox by our pal, Steve Jobs.
