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| Part of the cALMER Utilities for IBM PC/AT and compatibles |
| Copyright (C) 1991 by cALMER Utilities [All Rights Reserved] |
| 361 Somerville Road, Hornsby Heights NSW 2077 Australia [+612] 482 1715 |
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SIPlus (Systems Information Plus) provides a vast range of information
about your hardware. Not everything will make sense to you, but since
you probably never have any need to know the details just take it
for granted that what is displayed is the information your
system is prepared to reveal.
Not all computers will have the same information displayed,
on some models, almost nothing of interest is shown as it is
not possible to retrieve that information.
I started writing SIPlus many moons ago because I was curious
just what type of computer was sold to me and how accurate
the sales persons statements where.
This has annoyed quite a few hardware people who objected to
the program showing just what a load of rubbish their
machines are. Unfortunately, their bribes consisted of the
types of machines the program was showing up as bad, so
instead of accepting free computers so I could adjust SIPlus
to accommodate their incompatibilities, I've decided to put
a compatibility rating (CCR) into the program.
A CCR of 100% indicates that it is, from a programming point
of view, 100% compatible with the equivalent IBM machine,
i.e. an AT or XT. IBM PS/2 models do not show up 100% since
IBM has changed a lot of things internally. As I am not rich
enough to afford one of those, I'll have to wait till some
clones appear on the market.
A CCR of less than 60% means that you've been had. To date,
I have been made aware of only one such computer. The CCR is
calculated by evaluating tests based on IBM Technical
Documentation.
POTENTIAL PROBLEMS using SIPLUS:
On some computers, SIPLUS will simply lock-up the system,
i.e., a complete systems crash will eventuate. This will
be due to some timing errors or possibly to a flaky CPU.
If SiPlus locks up on you, do the following:
Set an environment variable called CA-STAT to contain either
NOCPU or NOROM.
i.e., from DOS key in (no '"') "SET CA-STAT=NOCPU<Enter>"
or "SET CA-STAT=NOROM<Enter>"
or both "SET CA-STAT=NOCPU NOROM<Enter>"
NOCPU tells SIPlus not to perform a CPU test, while
NOROM tells SIPlus not to perform a ROM test / search.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to trap the errors created
by these tests programatically as the program never gets to
know about the problem....
PRINTING SIPLUS information.
Press the <Print Screen> key when viewing SIPlus information
or redirect output to printer thus: "SIPLUS >PRN<Enter>"
You will need SIPlus if you have problems with NBY, the anti-
virus / Trojan program. (See NBY.DOC)
.end of document siplus.doc