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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> squeak
squeak
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? | 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
> 
> --------

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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