1. square tape Mainframe magnetic tape cartridges for use with IBM 3480 or compatible tape drives; or QIC tapes used on workstations and microcomputers. The term comes from the square actually rectangular shape of the cartridges; contrast round tape. [Jargon File] Squeak 1. ["Squeak: A Language for Communicating with Mice", L. Cardelli et al, Comp Graphics 193:199-204, July 1985]. See Newsqueak. 2. A Smalltalk implementation and a media authoring tool by members of the original Xerox PARC team which created Smalltalk Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, et al. Squeak is an open-source implementation, with a highly portable virtual machine implemented in a subset of Smalltalk translated into C and compiled by a C compiler of the target platform. Squeak Home http://www. squeak. org/. SqueakCentral http://www. squeakland. org/.
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