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Re: Help!!! Need program to determine CPU!!

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From: Brad Houser
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 22:42
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Keith Connors writes:
>Help!  I think we've been ripped off!  The family just purchased a
>486 33 MHz system, but there is reason to believe that it may be
>actually a 386 33 MHz machine!!  Could someone please uuencode and mail
>me (or better yet, refer to an anonymous FTP site) a program that 
>displays the CPU in the machine?!  We'd rather not take it apart until
>we can be sure that we've been had!!!  
>
>Thanks so much for your time......
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Keith Connors                                          krc@eclx.psu.edu
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>(If uuencoding, please send to above address...if E-Mailing, go ahead
>and reply to the message-post's address)!
>

If you have MS-Windows v3.1 then simply run the program called MSD for
a lot of system information, including processor type.  I don't know what it
will tell you if you don't have "Intel Inside"(TM) but it does know that there
is such a thing as a 486DX and I must assume it knows what a 486SX is since 
the DX name came after the SX was announced.  

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[Brad Houser                                                         ]
[                            bhouser@sc9.intel.com                   ]
[+1-408-765-0494                                                Woof!]
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From: bhouser@sc9.intel.com (Brad Houser)
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Subject: Re: Help!!!  Need program to determine CPU!!
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Date: 6 Oct 92 22:42:35 GMT
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