Re: How to detect CPU type and speed from C?

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From: Will Rose
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 00:00

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Keith Bennett (kbennett@cpcug.org) wrote:

: Is there a way (within a C program) to detect which CPU is installed in a
: system and what the clock speed is?  Is there any public domain source
: code available for this?

It's pretty much covered in The Undocumented PC, but most of the
work is done in assembler; and you may well need to hit eg. i/o
ports.  It's a long time since I've looked at this, and I don't
have the book here, but I'd check it out.  It's part of the 
Andrew Schulmann (?sp) Undocumented Whatever series.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com

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