[Tfug] CPUID

[Ammon Lauritzen]

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On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Steven Bowers wrote:

> I have an opportunity to buy a 2nd CPU for my dual motherboard at an
> attractive price. Is there a way to get the stepping number ie SL52R
> without pulling the processor?

If you're running a modern Linux kernel, /proc/cpuinfo has a lot of that
sort of info... though I don't know if it would give you exactly the info
you are looking for (ie, the machine I'm on right now says stepping = 3).

Don't know how to do it under BSD or any other OS.

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Ammon Lauritzen
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