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From: bakke@plains.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Bakke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How to rename directories and computer info
Keywords: rename, processor
Message-ID: <4108@plains.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 90 21:01:49 GMT
References: <19580@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <9065@chaph.usc.edu>
Reply-To: bakke@plains.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Bakke)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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>In article <19580@boulder.Colorado.EDU> grandin@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Keith Grandin) writes:
Stuff...
>
>>      2 - How can a program find out what kind of processor and how
>

You might want to download and check out the sources for fractint 12.0
(or any of the few previous versions).  They have source code for
determining what type of CPU and FPU you're using.  They use this to
determine which instruction set to use for floating point math...

Jeff Bakke
bakke@plains.NoDak.edu