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In article <315@bally.Bally.COM> pete@bally.UUCP (exilied in my own office) writes:
>In article <1990Jul19.025150.6150@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>>For status programs that wish to detect what sort of processor they
>>are running on, does anybody have the scoop on official detection
>>procedure for an 80486?   Assuming, for example, that one already knows
>>that one is on a 386 or better.  I already have code to detect
>>8086, 8088, 80186, 80286, 80386, 8087, 80287 and 80387 -- I want to make
>>it complete.
>
>I spoke with an engineer at SCO (whose remains unnamed) who sadly
>told me that there was no way to tell an 80386 from an 80486.

I have some assembler source that claims to do the detection but I
have not tested it. If somebody wants to check it out please free to
ftp it from chyde.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3). It is in pc/source and
called 80486.asm

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