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From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: dmesg (explain, pls.)
Date: 10 Dec 1996 05:35:08 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Hi, powerfull All!

Can anybody explain two lines from dmesg:

CPU: 100-MHz Pentium 815\\100 (Pentium-class CPU)

  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,PSE,MCE,CX8,APIC>

and from another computer:


CPU: 120-MHz Pentium 735\\90 or 815\\100 (Pentium-class CPU)

  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>


In particular, what is the meaning of "90" and "100"
and what are the Features ?
I understand, that FPU - floating point unit,
VME - Virtual Memory ....

Special interest is about differences (DE, TSC, MSR, and APIC)
How important are this differences ?

Thanks in advance.

IgoR
aka StR