MLVWM or Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager, is an FVWM descendant created by Takashi Hasegawa while studying at Nagoya University and was written...
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different window manager features, resulting in the early development of virtual desktop capabilities in X. The first implementation of virtual desktops...
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from Nagoya University. As a student, he created MLVWM, or Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager and released the code to the public back in 1998. He was...
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improvement over its previous Windows 2.0 offering. Its GUI was considered a challenger to those used and popularized by the Macintosh. Other praised features...
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OPENSTEP, with the addition of a virtual machine subsystem — known as the Blue Box — for running "classic" Macintosh applications. The result was known...
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Virtual PC is a discontinued x86 emulator software for Microsoft Windows hosts and PowerPC-based Mac hosts. It was created by Connectix in 1997 and acquired...
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Desktop environment (redirect from X window system desktop environment)
commercial personal computers by the original Macintosh from Apple in 1984, and was popularized further by Windows from Microsoft since the 1990s. As of 2014[update]...
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simplified Macintosh, released in 1984 and designed to be lower in cost, was the first commercially successful product to use a multi-panel window interface...
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Resource fork (redirect from Resource (Macintosh))
away. This software variant of virtual memory reduces memory requirements from 1 MB in the Lisa to 128 KB in Macintosh.[citation needed] It provides a...
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Graphical user interface (redirect from Window chrome)
Apple Lisa (which presented the concept of menu bar and window controls) in 1983, the Apple Macintosh 128K in 1984, and the Atari ST with Digital Research's...
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Windows or of the Apple Macintosh (examples include GNOME 2, KDE Plasma, Xfce) or have radically different controls (such as a tiling window manager,...
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Internet Explorer for Mac (redirect from Internet Explorer for Macintosh)
Microsoft for the Macintosh platform to browse web pages. Initial versions were developed from the same code base as Internet Explorer for Windows. Later versions...
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Apple Lisa, but before the Macintosh) under the name "Windows", but Windows 1.0 was not released until November 1985. Windows 1.0 was to compete with Apple's...
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In the development of Windows 1.0, Microsoft intentionally limited its borrowing of certain GUI elements from the Macintosh user interface, to comply...
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System 7 (redirect from Macintosh System 7)
operating system for Macintosh computers, made by Apple Computer. It was launched on May 13, 1991, to succeed System 6 with virtual memory, personal file...
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MacOS (redirect from Apple Macintosh OS X)
commonly pronounced like the letter "X". The iPhone X, iPhone XR and iPhone XS all later followed this convention. Previous Macintosh operating systems...
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Microsoft PowerPoint (category Presentation software for Windows)
produce color 35 mm slides. The third version (Windows and Macintosh, 1992) introduced video output of virtual slideshows to digital projectors, which would...
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Windows on Windows (WoW), which allows applications built for 16-bit Windows operating systems like Windows 3.1 to run. On x86 computers, the virtual...
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1994 along with Windows NT Server 3.5. This initial release targeted the management of MS-DOS, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, Macintosh, and OS/2 desktops...
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Mac (computer) (redirect from Macintosh computer)
computers designed and marketed by Apple since 1984. The name is short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), a reference to the McIntosh apple. The...
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who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer from 1983 to 1986. She was employee #10 and creative...
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Gates, not on the Power Macintosh as the PReP compliant Power Macintosh project failed to ship. Intergraph Corporation ported Windows NT to its Clipper architecture...
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sessions inside a single TUI, and so can be thought of as being like a window manager for text-mode and command-line interfaces. Tmux can also do this...
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TrueType (redirect from TrueType virtual machine)
fonts like ITC Bookman and ITC Chancery in TrueType format. All of these fonts could now scale to all sizes on screen and printer, making the Macintosh System...
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HyperCard is a software application and development kit for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers. It is among the first successful hypermedia systems...
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Mac operating systems (redirect from Apple Macintosh OS)
original Macintosh System Software. The system, rebranded Mac OS in 1997, was pre-installed on every Macintosh until 2002 and offered on Macintosh clones...
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Apple's Macintosh computer supports a wide variety of fonts. This support was one of the features that initially distinguished it from other systems....
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toolkit, and application development tools for Unix-like operating systems. Window Maker, a window manager designed to emulate the NeXT GUI as part of the...
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System 6 (redirect from Macintosh System 6)
is the sixth major release of the classic Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers, made by Apple Computer. It was released in 1988. It is a monolithic...
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MultiFinder (category Macintosh operating systems user interface)
for the Macintosh Plus. Its file manager is unusual due to its lack of a scrollbar, instead requiring to hold and drag the window background like a modern...
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