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From: Timothy Reaves <reaves@unix.asb.com>
Subject: Re: [VA] What does Abt stand for?
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Dan Goldman wrote:
> 
> Timothy Reaves wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know what 'Abt' means? Most IBM VA classes start with
> > it.
> 
> Others have already answered, but...a little more history.
> 
> Back in the dark ages, around 1989-90, IBM was building a development
> environment based on Smalltalk/V (from Digitalk).  It was called
> AppBuilder, and that's where the ABT prefix came from.  When IBM and
> Digitalk had their falling out around 1992 over VisualAge, the code was
> ported to OTI Smalltalk, and the classname prefixes were retained.
> 
> ...dan

Thanks for the history. 

By the way, is there anyone IBM didn't fall-out with? ;>
