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From: robl@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (R. Luursema)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How do I determine the clock speed?
Keywords: Clock Speed Timer
Message-ID: <1069@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 7 Dec 90 09:14:52 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.061630.22992@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1990Dec3.061630.22992@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dslg0849@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) writes:
>Can anyone point me to or provide me with some code (preferably in Pascal)
>which will determine the clock speed?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Daniel Lewart
>d-lewart@uiuc.edu

Basically, you can't determine the CPU clockspeed of an arbitrary PC.

What you can do is determine CPU type and 
some relative speed against a known system (like IBM PC/XT), by 
executing some instruction mix and time execution speed.
However this number can tell only little about CPU clock speed; it
will give different numbers on similar systems with the same CPU and 
clock speed.

If you want source (TP), look at INFOPLUS, posted in comp.binaries.ibm.pc
about a month ago (infop131.zoo). A even more recent version should be
available on SIMTEL20 or any mirror archives.

Rob.
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