Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/02/10:07:41
Date: | Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:58:14 -0600 (CST)
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From: | Alan Hightower <alh AT engr DOT uark DOT edu>
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: | Re: testing intel cpu type
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In-Reply-To: | <32a25224.55140468@nntp.southeast.net>
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Message-ID: | <Pine.GSO.3.94.961202085708.6461A-100000@cseg01>
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MIME-Version: | 1.0
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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Murray Stokely wrote:
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> Could someone please post some source to test if a 80486 or better
> processor is present? I know the theory behind it (writing an
> interrupt handler for int6, and trying to execute a 486 instruction)
> But DJGPP kept giving me error messages. I've been coding in Borland
> for too long ;-)
On both www.intel.com and www.x86.org they have an Intel tech doc on
different CPUID techniques...
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