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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: System information from SYSID47.ZIP and a problem
Message-ID: <1990Jan14.210745.16706@uwasa.fi>
Date: 14 Jan 90 21:07:45 GMT
Sender: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: University of Vaasa
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There are a lot of system information programs around.  That is
programs which examine your PC and give details of the various
aspects of your hardware.  Recently I obtained (/pc/pd2/)sysid47.zip
package, and it is available by anonymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi. 
It gives 16 pages of detailed information.  It ran nicely on my
Zenith z-181 laptop, but when I tried it at office on my 386 16Mhz
Osborne, the program froze completely on page 2.  Only a cold boot
could restart the machine.  Pity, but compatibility problems with
programs which use complicated internal calls is quite common. 

I have had a go at such a utility myself. Inevitably it is called
sysinfo.exe. It is included in the (/pc/ts/)tsutil28.arc package.

Benchmark programs are a similar, but distinct category of of PC
information programs.  Let's look at them some other time.

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: vakk::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun