Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!uupsi!sunic!tut!funic!uwasa.fi!hv From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Detecting an 80486 Message-ID: <1990Jul20.102937.12037@uwasa.fi> Date: 20 Jul 90 10:29:37 GMT References: <1990Jul19.025150.6150@looking.on.ca> <315@bally.Bally.COM> Distribution: comp.os.msdos.programmer Organization: University of Vaasa Lines: 22 In article <315@bally.Bally.COM> pete@bally.UUCP (exilied in my own office) writes: >In article <1990Jul19.025150.6150@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >>For status programs that wish to detect what sort of processor they >>are running on, does anybody have the scoop on official detection >>procedure for an 80486? Assuming, for example, that one already knows >>that one is on a 386 or better. I already have code to detect >>8086, 8088, 80186, 80286, 80386, 8087, 80287 and 80387 -- I want to make >>it complete. > >I spoke with an engineer at SCO (whose remains unnamed) who sadly >told me that there was no way to tell an 80386 from an 80486. I have some assembler source that claims to do the detection but I have not tested it. If somebody wants to check it out please free to ftp it from chyde.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3). It is in pc/source and called 80486.asm -- == Harri Valkama ============================================================== | harri.valkama@wmac00.uwasa.fi hv@uwasa.fi hv@flame.uwasa.fi hv@nic.funet.fi | | University of Vaasa, PO BOX 700, 65101 VAASA, Finland (fax: +358 61 248465) | = Moderating at chyde.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3) & nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) ==