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Re:\Device\Afd, or, the Deal with the Devil that makes async... by anaisbetts on Monday March 13, 2023 @07:44PM (#35144975)
A story I heard while working on Kernel and Drivers at MS, is that this acronym originally stood for "Another Fucking Driver", named by Dave Cutler once a kernel engineer told him that it was necessary and asked him for a good name. Obviously before they shipped, they needed to come up with a more Palatable name, so "Auxiliary function driver" was the name they came up with.

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