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It wasn't much better with big cats. There were two sort of semantically related releases, Leopard/Snow Leopard and Lion/Mountain Lion. Of those on the Leopard/Snow Leopard I thought made sense as Snow Leopard was a "oh shit fix all the bugs" release. SL was the first full OS release after the Intel transition and 64-bit kernel.

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I can picture a big cat in my mind. That helped to peg OS X releases and enabled me to mentally distinguish and order them.

I can't picture "Monterey" or "Ventura" or any other macOS names, they have no meaning to me.

Ventura has a meaning to me.... Ace Ventura, a cartoon from my childhood about a egotistical questionably competent detective.

I'm not sure that's the image Apple wants to give off though...

Places in CA have a lot of references in music and movies [1]. Hollywood loves to pimp where their people are from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventura_Boulevard#References

"Ventura Highway, in the sunshine..." [0]

I may be dating myself somewhat here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventura_Highway

Ventura was also the home of Chouinard Equipment, later renamed to Black Diamond Equipment, and is the base of Patagonia, a clothing company.

Sunny beach town, Spanish mission, etc.

Big Sur, Monterey, Yosemite, El Capitan, Catalina... all worked for me because I've either been there or there was a screensaver/wallpaper to associate them with their locales. I really don't know a thing about Ventura.

Yes but it starts to be difficult to keep 18 names in the head, be them cats or California places

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