idcmp

The Amiga used message ports to communicate between proceses. The Amiga's GUI system was called Intuition. Intuition would report back GUI events through a MsgPort. Thus IDCMP = Intuition Direct Communications Message Port.

I.t came to be my nick years ago when I was flipping through an RKM while chatting and was told to pick a nickname and stick with it. I picked the first thing I saw and it's been that way since. ..