Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Why is it Called Manila?

Author:Philip Suh
Posted:11/16/1999; 8:54:58 PM
Topic:Why is it Called Manila?
Msg #:13124 (In response to 6748)
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Choosing soundalike names is not unknown to me. I chose Frontier because it has the same shape as Finder, and being a Mac product, I wanted its name to look familiar to Mac users.

I'm reminded of another Userland product, MacBird--a card-based GUI for Frontier. MacBird was a soundalike name to BlackBird, which was some Microsoft codename for something....

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