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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:26:09 +0100
From: "J.P. Morris" <doug-15 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: CPUID Opcode
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Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Thomas Harte wrote:
> 
> >
> > Robin Johnson wrote in message <38F8B55B DOT 5BFDA8E0 AT home DOT com>...
> > >Whenever I call the CPUID Opcode in the inline asm, my program seems to
> > fail.
> >
> > First thing - don't forget that CPUID only works on Pentiums and above. I'm
> > sure you hadn't!
> 
> You are a bit wrong here Thomas, because even 486's have the CPUID
> instruction, especialy the last few batches of 486 dx2's from intel had
> them (mine has) and AFAIK most of the 486 DX4 100's support CPUID too...

It was also supported by some 486-sx lass processors, such as the Cyrix and
UMC chips in 1995, which returned 'CyrixInstead' and 'UMC UMC UMC '
respectively.

> 
> Grendel
> 
> Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread
> :)

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