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I imagine it's about as exciting as most codenames: "we needed to decide some naming scheme, and someone suggested those place names because they like the place
by gsnedders 5y ago
I imagine it's about as exciting as most codenames: "we needed to decide some naming scheme, and someone suggested those place names because they like the places".
- jjoonathan 5y ago"What's red that we could name a CPU after?" "Blood?" "Too gross, and not enough variations." "Rubies?" "People would find a way to confuse the CPUs with the programming language, and besides, if Twitter digs up those tech demos of ours we're totally gonna get cancelled." "Romans?" "Sure, Romans are cool, and they conquer things, like we're going to conquer Intel. I like it." "How about emperors?" "Fine in principle, but they each did at least a few scandalous things... besides, we probably don't want the "history class" vibe, or the energy of the weird uncle who always wants to talk about Roman battle tactics at dinner." "Yeah, fair enough. Cities, then? I visited Milan the other year..." (30 minutes later) "Cities it is!"