Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!lll-tis!ptsfa!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!pc.ecn.purdue.edu!jmoore From: jmoore@pc.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Moore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Do you know how ? Would you mind telling me ? Message-ID: <732@pc.ecn.purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 12:32:19 EDT Article-I.D.: pc.732 Posted: Mon Jul 27 12:32:19 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 06:45:38 EDT Reply-To: jmoore@pc.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Moore) Distribution: world Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 31 I recently wrote a program (maily to see if I could do it) that would tell me what the configuration of a system was for any PC/XT/AT. I am doing a major rewrite of this program and would like to add some new interesting features. I have been able to determine the number of serial, parallel, disks, type of computer(PCjr,PC,XT,AT), presence of 8087 chip and the version of dos. I also know how I can determine what the type a disk is (DS/DD, high density, hard disk), what version of ROM is present and some other micellanious information. What I would like to do now is to include code that would do the following. (1) Determine the CPU speed. What I mean here is if a person has a turbo XT like I have determine under what clock speed they are using (4.77 or 8 or ??). (2) Also if possible determine the CPU type (8086,8088,80186,80286,80386) I am uncertain how to do the first. I don't know if is possible to do the second one. I don't realy think the last one is possible but thought I would ask. I have mentioned to several people here that I have done this and they seem interested. I know there are some programs out there that will do similar things but I was curious how it was done. Here at work we have several PC/XT/AT systems and I am occasionaly asked which machines are set up with what so I figured I could use this to check some of the above features. Any help with the above will be appreciated. Jim Moore jmoore@gb.ecn.purdue.edu