Peter Jeremy:
 |On 1999-Oct-29 09:49:46 +1000, Randall Hopper wrote:
 |>Do you know the correct way is for software to inquire about the CPU
 |>installed?
 |
 |sysctl hw.model
 |
 |What more do you want to know about it?  From memory there's been some

For reporting to or warning the user, everything :-)

But to use for making software decisions: 3DNow Y/N, MMX Y/N, SSE Y/N.  You
touch on that below.

Thanks,

Randall


 |discussion about how to report CPU features (probably via an
 |additional sysctl), but I'm not sure what's happened.  There's nothing
 |in -current yet, so it'll be a while before there's anything in
 |-stable.



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