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** While not a shout out to pop culture most of the time the codenames for AMD, Intel, and Microsoft products tend to be named after places they either do development in, take vacations to, or just because.
** AMD's first in-house designed x86 compatible processor was called K5. Their next generation, K6, was when they said the K meant [[Superman|Kryptonite]].
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** The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi Raspberry Pi] (an educational- / hobbyist-market computing device with an ARM CPU, capable of running [[Acorn Archimedes|Acorn RISC OS]]) is available in "Model A" and "Model B" versions; this will sound familiar to anyone who remembers the [[BBC Micro]]. (It's no coincidence that this device was co-developed by David Braben, of ''[[Elite]]'' fame.)
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' has provided several. Among them:
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