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There were all kinds of tricks prior to cpuid to figure out what kind of cpu you were running on . I had actually forgotten about that - thanks for reminding me
by Agingcoder 2y ago
There were all kinds of tricks prior to cpuid to figure out what kind of cpu you were running on . I had actually forgotten about that - thanks for reminding me !
- rzzzt 2y agoRobert Collins' article lists some of these methods, mostly centered around flag bits behavior: http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Sep96/Sep96.html http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Sep96/Sep96.html
- Agingcoder 2y agoStraight from dr Dobbs - that felt just about right thanks.