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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: pc type from Turbo pascal
Message-ID: <642@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 14 Jul 89 16:08:18 GMT
References: <20411@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <20411@cup.portal.com> Mike_W_Ryan@cup.portal.com writes:
>I want to be able to tell what kind of MSDOS computer i am running on
>via Turbo Pascal. I need to distinguish between generic dos, IMB pc,
>or AT, etc. I've looked at dos services and interrrupts. I would
>guess the info is "somewhere" in memory and tracable with the MEM
>function. Can anyone tell me where to get the data I need and how to decode
>it?

See eg Norton & Wilton, The New Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to
the IBM PC and PS/2, page 64 describing memory location $F000:$FFFE
Hex.  Jamsa & Nameroff, Turbo Pascal Programmer's Library also has
information on the matter. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi                                (Site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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