(1) (
General
Protection
Fault) The name given to a crash in Windows, starting with Windows 3.1. See
abend and
UAE.
(2) (Gpf) (
GUI
Programming
Facility) An OS/2 application generator originally from GPF Systems, Inc., Moodus, CT. Gpf was used to visually build GUIs for applications using OS/2 Presentation Manager. GpfREXX combined this capability with the REXX language included in OS/2 to develop complete applications.