> Would that be the 4040 or the 8008?

Heh, yeah. In the moment I couldn't come up with the brief, unique descriptor and reached for the modern shorthand.

It wasn't confusing enough that Intel named their CPU core 'Core' or that they put 'Duo' after it if there wre two 'Core' cores packaged together, but they also put a '2' after it if it was the second generation, then they dropped the generation number from the name in the third generation, making that the first generation of their new numbering scheme of which you're discussing the second generation.

The only clear option is to use the internal code name, but that's technically not valid once it's released so "Products formerly Sandy Bridge" is the best Intel can come up with. (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codenam...)

Physical harm realized because boot took eternity.

Only if you work in a hospital. And who would be crazy enough to build hospital IT on Windo.. oh, wait.

I haven't tried Win11 on personal hardware so far, but since Win8, boot times are not much of an issue in my experience.

Making the whole OS the vehicle for a rent-seeking vendor lock-in scheme built to make you pay more and more to keep up the same set of functionality is more of a problem I think.