Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp From: Brian Sturk Subject: Re: how to find out what processor is being used?? Sender: news AT world DOT std DOT com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: <3512D542.F348F2C9@nrec.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:44:50 GMT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <350880aa DOT 83709147 AT news DOT nai DOT net> Nntp-Posting-Host: world-f.std.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: Northern Research and Engineering Lines: 24 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk There's a flag is the flags register that you can set if you have a processor of one type and not set if it's another. I remember you can discern anything from an 8088 up to 386/486 using it. It's been a while but I'll look up the code snippet. They also might be an easier way to do this that I haven't seen yet. Perry DOT Fecteau AT Republican DOT COM wrote: > i'm guessing it's a bios call. or is there an address i can find this > information in? > > -------------------- http://w3.nai.net/~perfecto ------------------------- > Perry Fecteau, Republican > The new pages go up April 1,1998 > -------------------- http://w3.nai.net/~perfecto ------------------------- -- B r i a n S t u r k Software Eng / Contractor Home e-mail bsturk AT nh DOT ultranet DOT com