MLVWM or Macintosh-Like

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descendant created by

Takashi Hasegawa Takashi Hasegawa is an electrical engineer and programmer, who works at the Optoelectronic System Laboratory of Hitachi Cable, Ltd. Hasegawa graduated with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Nagoya University. As a student, he created MLVWM, o ...

in 1997 while studying at

Nagoya University , abbreviated to or NU, is a Japanese national research university located in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya. It was the seventh Imperial University in Japan, one of the first five Designated National University and selected as a Top Type university of T ...

and was written entirely in the

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. As its name implies, it attempts to emulate the pre-

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look and feel in its layout and window design. Although no longer under active development, MLVWM has spawned a derivative known as

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. MLVWM is now distributed under the

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