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  1. From: mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu
  2. To: current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu, martin@euterpe.owl.de
  3. Subject: Re: "GenuineIntel" spacing ???
  4. Sender: owner-current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
  5.  
  6.  
  7.    [...] - but my own computer says "i486-Class CPU". Is this a save way
  8.    to detect non-Intel CPU's?
  9.  
  10. No.  Only fairly recent Intel 486s have the `cpuid' instruction which
  11. returns that string.  Older ones do not, so the kernel can't print it
  12. out.
  13.  
  14. I'm starting to consider removing that altogether.
  15.