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From: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Detecting an 80486
Message-ID: <56859@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 90 17:43:27 GMT
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In article <9008211347.AA05979@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>History suggests that when clone CPUs come out, the
>vendors won't leave well enough alone and will add new instructions of their
>own

I wish that someone would add a "version" command, that would identify the
chip.  Even if Intel doesn't want to add such a feature, the clone
manufacturers could add it and make a de facto standard.  It is not an
earthshakingly important issue, but how hard could it be to do this?
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Steve "I don't speak for Microsoft" Hastings    ===^=== :::::
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