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From: cgf@infinet.UUCP (Chris Faylor)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Identifying an iAPX series processo
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Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 12:24:36 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 23 12:24:36 1986
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> Question: is it possible to identify in software the type of processor
> a program is running on (assuming MS-DOS here...)?  I would like to
> know whether it's an 8088, 8086, 80188, 80186 or an 80286.  If it
> is possible, how do I do it?

The April 1986 (Vol. 4, No. 4) issue of PC TECH Journal has an article
titled "Chips in Transition" which has routines to distinguish between
the different flavors of CPUs.
-- 
			-cgf-

I feel more like I do now than I did when I first got here.

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