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From: jsp@milton.biostr.washington.edu (Jeff Prothero)
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Subject: Re: Difference between a 386 and a 386sx
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Date: 26 Sep 90 21:32:32 GMT
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 Am I just dense, or what?  There are lots of programs
around that distinguish DX from SX machines.  Most of
them just seem to check the length of the prefetch
queue.  Code to do this has been posted.  Has something
happened to break this approach?  Why the agonizing?