Replies to post #26591 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[tecate]

How can AMD's legal let this happen?


Does Mr. Halada work for AMD? how else would he be able to answer your question, "how can AMD's legal let this happen?"

[Haddock]

I don't think AMD was under any legal obligation to call their extensions the same as Intel's. On the contrary I think they had to negotiate for the right.

But you can't really expect Intel to use the name AMD64 now can you? If they had continued to call it x86-64 then perhaps, but lets face it, that was a pretty poor name. Not easy to prononce, google for, use as a variable name, etc.

[jhalada]

wmbz,

AMD called the SSE (1) 3DNow Proffesional, IIRC

Joe