Fun inside MS history tid-bit: The reason x64 is called AMD64 and not x86-64 or x64 is almost entirely Dave Cutler's[1] doing. He, being constantly annoyed wit

Fun inside MS history tid-bit: The reason x64 is called AMD64 and not x86-64 or x64 is almost entirely Dave Cutler's[1] doing. He, being constantly annoyed with Intel, used "AMD64" in the Windows NT source tree. It was used in version information properties as well. He believed the AMD64 architecture was better than the Intel EM64T architecture and forced the issues by steadfastly refusing to change the name in the Windows source tree.[2] I recall several attempts by 'marketing' and execs to get AMD64 renamed to something Intel was happy with. The NT team (working on XP Pro 64-bit and Server 2003 SP1 64-bit) won by saying, basically, "oh, we can't do that NOW; it would be too de-stabilizing to the release and we'd slip". [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler [2] http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1008337/amds-64-bits-better-than-intels-64-bits----microsoft http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1008337/amds-64-bit...