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The thing which kills me, is that with entirety of the State of California's Gazetteer to pull from, Apple didn't pull a page from Android and use an alphabetically ordered naming scheme so that folks could determine ordering of versions.

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You know, someone should invent an infinite sequence of ordinal symbols which we could use to place things in a sequence. It could start with a simple vertical line, something like "1". Maybe someone more clever than me can come up with the next symbol.

Unfortunately, I lost track of how Mac OS X was numbered after 10.7.whatever the last iteration was.

Doesn't much matter, since 10.6.8 was the last version I truly enjoyed using.

Codenames are meant to tickle the pride of this or that manager, not be useful to customers.

They also need to function as workable identifiers, and their being confusing works against folks.

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