Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:58:14 -0600 (CST)
From: Alan Hightower <alh AT engr DOT uark DOT edu>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: testing intel cpu type
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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Murray Stokely wrote:

>  
>     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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