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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: On infop100
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.200712.16959@uwasa.fi>
Date: 7 Aug 90 20:07:12 GMT
Sender: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: University of Vaasa
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> Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
> Subject: v07i106: infop100, get info on system hardware
> Summary: Display hardware confiuration
: 
>   This is a program which gives you pages of information about the
> system on which it's running.  It seems to recognize variations,
> knows a PS/2 when it sees one, and generally helps you figure out
> what is in the box without opening it. 
:
>   I highly commend this program. Rate it A+.
> 
> Submitter says:
> 
>   This is a replacement for SYSID50.ZIP on SIMTEL20.  It is a
> program that contains 16 pages of usefull information on your PC
> computer.  This version corrects a major '386 bug in SYSID 5.0. 
:

Also I have now taken a look at this program by Andrew Rossmann
built on Steve Grant's sysid44, and find it quite comprehensive with
useful TP sources.  There are interesting interrupt tricks for Turbo
Pascal programmers to be learned from there.  For those of you who
may prefer anonymous ftp, I shall make it available as (/pc/pd2/)
infop100.zip at chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland. 

   The program is not flawless.  On my 25Mhz 386 page 2 (the CPU
information page) freezes my PC so thoroughly that a cold boot is
required.  This is, of cource, highly annoying.  Perhaps the code in
PC System Programming by Michael Tischer, Abacus, 1990, for
detecting the cpu might be of interest to the author.  It works ok
on the PCs I've tried. 
   Furthermore, the information page 17 will explode all over the
screen on my CGA Zenith Z-181 laptop (on the VGA 386 no problem on
page 17). 

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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: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun