Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:1620 comp.sys.intel:1331 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!yarra!pta!metro!ipso!hitech! From: @hitech.ht.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.intel Subject: How to tell a 286 from a 386 Keywords: 286 386 Message-ID: <1990Sep11.014449.20573@hitech.ht.oz.au> Date: 11 Sep 90 01:44:49 GMT Organization: HI-TECH Software, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Lines: 11 Can anybody offer suggestions on how a program can determine if it is running on an 80286 or an 80386 WITHOUT setting up an illegal instruction trap? Please e-mail responses (no incoming news at present). Thanks. -- Clyde Smith-Stubbs | HI-TECH Software, | Voice: +61 7 300 5011 clyde@hitech.ht.oz.au | P.O. Box 103, Alderley, | Fax: +61 7 300 5246 ...!nwnexus!hitech!clyde | QLD, 4051, AUSTRALIA. | BBS: +61 7 300 5235 Hick's Law of Systems Programming: Don't test for errors you can't handle.