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Old February 11th 18, 10:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion Paul wrote:

If you want to see just how many of those instruction set
and feature flags there are, this utility lists quite a few
of them. But this isn't likely to run on Windows 98.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...loads/coreinfo

And there's info on where that stuff comes from. The privileged
CPUID instructions have the flags as a series of bits. While Intel
has several utilities for "Processor Identification", I don't know
if there's one for Win98 that dumps the flags. Undoubtedly somebody,
at some time, has written a utility similar to the one described
in this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUID


CPU-Z does the job, make sure to download the Windows 98 version:
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

Linux gives easy access to the info. But not every Linux LiveDVD
boots on old computers (I've tried). And I don't know if Puppy
has the info available or not. You can see an example here, of
/proc/cpuinfo belching up the details.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/media/new/...oc-cpuinfo.png


Executing "cat /proc/cpuinfo" in a Linux terminal should work
in almost any distro and show you all the full specifications.

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