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Please could someone supply me with a peice of code that identifies the cpu type and displayes a message accordingley???

I have one allready but its written in 32bit asm, and i need 16bit, it was also made for MASM (Boooo)...
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cat /proc/cpuinfo ?

I have one allready but its written in 32bit asm, and i need 16bit, it was also made for MASM

This is hardly the most challenging conversion in the world.

keep in mind that even in real mode, you can use 32 bits registers like eax provided that you're running on a 386+ (oh, but you certainly assume you are as CPUID comes on Pentium processors and a few selected 486 )

I don't think KieranFoot was necessarily meaning to use the CPUID instruction; I gather he wants a program that determines the processor by checking for support (or lack thereof) of CPU specific features, primarily to check that the CPU is a 386 or later. Such checking code was a lot more common years ago, when a considerable number of 286s were still in use; most OS developers these days don't even consider the possibility of someone trying to use their system on anything older than a Pentium, which given that computer sales more or less doubled with each new processor generation between 1986 and 1999, that isn't so unreasonable.

The Jeff Weeks bootsector example in OSRC includes NASM code for checking that the system is 32-bit ready, but it does not do a full CPU detection. Also, Curufir points out, converting MASM code to assemble under NASM is fairly straightforward.

cheers