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) Prev/Next: 13123 / 13125
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....
There are responses to this message:
- Re: Why is it Called Manila?, Erik Neu, 11/17/1999; 5:37:19 AM
This page was archived on 6/13/2001; 4:53:32 PM.
© Copyright 1998-2001 UserLand Software, Inc.