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Article #1011Re: Help!!! Need program to determine CPU!!
From: Brad Houser
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 22:42
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. -- [Brad Houser ] [ bhouser@sc9.intel.com ] [+1-408-765-0494 Woof!]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!hri.com!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!iWarp.intel.com|ichips!sc9!bhouser From: bhouser@sc9.intel.com (Brad Houser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Help!!! Need program to determine CPU!! Message-ID: <1992Oct6.224235.16094@ichips.intel.com> Date: 6 Oct 92 22:42:35 GMT References: <1992Oct5.184133.13502@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Sender: news@ichips.intel.com (News Account) Reply-To: bhouser@sc9.intel.com Organization: Intel Corporation, California Technology Development Lines: 29