WIndows x64 ? or Windows AMD64 ?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Bjoern JACKE wrote:
> On 2005-05-19 at 15:19 -0500 Gerald (Jerry) Carter sent off:
>> I'm seeing printing architecture strings in the form of 
>> "Windows  AMD64" from Win32 tools.  Are you sure that the
>> "Windows x64" string is correct?
> 
> as Guenther is on the move I'm trying to answer. Starting with 
> one of the release candidates of XP SP2 Microsoft renamed
> the architecture string from "Windows AMD64" and "AMD64" to
> "Windows x64" and "x64". No final x64 Windows should use
> AMD64, just early beta versions.

ok.  This makes sense.  Apparently the printmig.exe developer
didn't get the message :-)  Thanks for clarifying things.




cheers, jerry
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