Re: What's the meaning of "squeak"?
by John M McIntosh other posts by this author
Mar 14 2002 4:57AM messages near this date
Testing of GUI?
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Re: What's the meaning of "squeak"?
> It was the Mac folder name in early 96 that I used to hold the new
> system files and keep it separate from some of the other Smalltalks
> that were on my machine. We were being wooed by Disney at that point
> and I thought that whatever happened there would be some kind of
> mouse in the future of this system. A month or so later the question
> of a name for the system came up in a group meeting and I said that
> I had been using the name "Squeak". Everybody liked it, and that was
> that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
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Well I've not heard this before, someone should grab this and stick
it on a swiki somewhere. I recall at SqueakEnd'00 we pestered Dan to
no-end for the story behind the name. Dan if I recall correctly just
grinned at us.
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