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I wasn't aware of Intel's practice of using their home state's natural places for code names. I shouldn't be surprised that Apple wasn't first the that game.

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Using place names is very common.

A place I used to work had the internal name of a release called Ulaanbaatar. AFAIK, nobody on the dev team was from Mongolia, but this sort of thing was the norm.

Recent OSX releases are all various places (High Sierra, Big Sur, Mojave, etc.)

Azure regional codenames are "Black Forest" and "Fairfax" for Germany and USGov sovereign clouds.

...and so on.

That was probably the most use "Ulaanbaatar" got that year. Mongolians usually shorten the capital to the initialism UB/Уб in speech and text because it's such a long word.

As I recall, they got sued by the musician's estate for using the code name, "Hendrix," so legal declared that they would henceforth only use place names as codenames to avoid the risk.

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