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Visitor II
January 12, 2004
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How to reliably identify the STPC Atlas (cpuid)

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Posted on January 12, 2004 at 08:43

How to reliably identify the STPC Atlas (cpuid)

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    roger2399Author
    Visitor II
    January 12, 2004
    Posted on January 12, 2004 at 06:46

    STPC lacks the cpuid instruction (available in Pentium and forward)

    Is there an other way to identify it?

    I have to be able to determine if it is a STPC or an other 486 based

    processor (intel).

    Of cause I can try to identify it by reading data from ports that does

    not exist on the 486 like USB - but then we run into the same problem

    when we change processor the next time...

    /RogerL
    roger2399Author
    Visitor II
    January 12, 2004
    Posted on January 12, 2004 at 08:43

    Found it.

    Register DIR0 (DEVID)

    Described in ''Standard 486 Processor Core Programming Manual''

    Chapter ''4.4.4.4 Configuration Registers''