point-and-drool interface

:point-and-drool interface: n. Parody of the techspeak term `point-and-click interface', describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface such as is found on the Macintosh. The implication, of course, is that such an interface is only suitable for idiots. See for the rest of us , WIMP environment , Macintrash drool-proof paper Also `point-and-grunt interface'.

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