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to: Przemek Dobrowolski
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1997-01-11 21:56:20
subject: What CPU ?

PD>
  > How check, what CPU is installed ?
PD>

  Use one of the many routines for the purpose that are published by
  Intel.

  Note:  Many people have come up with their own hacked together ways of
  identifying CPUs. These should be avoided wherever possible.  In many
  cases they fail to work correctly for many unusual types of CPUs,
  recognising 586es as 486es and so forth (the CPU detection code in
  MSD.EXE is infamous for doing this).

  Why are you doing this anyway ?  If it is to display the CPU type to the
  users of your program, don't bother.  The system information tool
  provided free of charge on the OS/2 BonusPak does a perfectly adequate
  job.  Users can run your program and the System Information Tool at the
  same time (this _is_ OS/2, after all).

  > JdeBP <
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