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Graphical User Interface (GUI) |
| A GUI (usually pronounced GOO-ee) is a graphical (rather
than purely textual) user interface to a computer. As you read this, you
are looking at the GUI or graphical user interface of your particular Web
browser. The term came into existence because the first interactive user
interfaces to computers were not graphical; they were text-and-keyboard
oriented and usually consisted of commands you had to remember and computer
responses that were infamously brief. The command interface of the DOS operating
system (which you can still get to from your Windows operating system) is
an example of the typical user-computer interface before GUIs arrived. An
intermediate step in user interfaces between the command line interface
and the GUI was the non-graphical menu-based interface, which let you interact
by using a mouse rather than by having to type in keyboard commands. |
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