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The CPUID instruction gives you a lot of information about the CPU. You don’t have to write hundreds of lines of code to find out what CPU is installed as you have to to find out if a 286 or a 386 chip is installed. To get the CPU vendor name use this code. This [...]

Sometimes you may want to find out if the CPU supports the CPUID instruction (late 486+ or Pentium+) to find out the CPU type. Well, this code should be what you need:
<pre>
<i>{$ifndef ver80} // Because of 32 bit register use</i>
<b>function</b> GetCpuIDSupport: Boolean; <b>assembler</b>;
<b>asm</b>
push ebx
mov @Result, True
pushfd [...]