How to tell a 286 from a 386

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From: Anon
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1990 01:44

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Can anybody offer suggestions on how a program can determine if it is running
on an 80286 or an 80386 WITHOUT setting up an illegal instruction trap?

Please e-mail responses (no incoming news at present).

Thanks.
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