W: Windows I: Icons M: Menus P: Pointing deviceThis is a term oftimes used to refer to the Graphical User Interface GUI interfaces commonly found on contemporary [desktop] systems.If you're going to get into doing this sort of thing with Tcl, use Tk (or [fltk], or ...) see Playing WIMP for a toy icon system.See also: [1] for "weakly interacting massive particles".