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Article #1975Re: Detecting an 80486
From: Steve Hastings
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 1990 17:43
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 1990 17:43
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In article <9008211347.AA05979@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: >History suggests that when clone CPUs come out, the >vendors won't leave well enough alone and will add new instructions of their >own I wish that someone would add a "version" command, that would identify the chip. Even if Intel doesn't want to add such a feature, the clone manufacturers could add it and make a de facto standard. It is not an earthshakingly important issue, but how hard could it be to do this? -- Steve "I don't speak for Microsoft" Hastings ===^=== ::::: uunet!microsoft!steveha steveha@microsoft.uucp ` \\==|
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!microsoft!steveha From: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Detecting an 80486 Message-ID: <56859@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 23 Aug 90 17:43:27 GMT References: <9008211347.AA05979@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> Reply-To: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) Organization: Microsoft International Products Group Lines: 12