ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) (01/15/90)
There are a lot of system information programs around. That is programs which examine your PC and give details of the various aspects of your hardware. Recently I obtained (/pc/pd2/)sysid47.zip package, and it is available by anonymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi. It gives 16 pages of detailed information. It ran nicely on my Zenith z-181 laptop, but when I tried it at office on my 386 16Mhz Osborne, the program froze completely on page 2. Only a cold boot could restart the machine. Pity, but compatibility problems with programs which use complicated internal calls is quite common. I have had a go at such a utility myself. Inevitably it is called sysinfo.exe. It is included in the (/pc/ts/)tsutil28.arc package. Benchmark programs are a similar, but distinct category of of PC information programs. Let's look at them some other time. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: vakk::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) (01/16/90)
In article <1990Jan14.210745.16706@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes: >There are a lot of system information programs around. That is >programs which examine your PC and give details of the various >aspects of your hardware. Recently I obtained (/pc/pd2/)sysid47.zip >package, and it is available by anonymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi. >It gives 16 pages of detailed information. It ran nicely on my >Zenith z-181 laptop, but when I tried it at office on my 386 16Mhz >Osborne, the program froze completely on page 2. Only a cold boot I had the same problem on my Epson Equity II+, but when I did a hardware reset, the program ran perfectly, and has done so ever since. What would cause this? Richard Stanton pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu
andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Andrew Rossmann) (01/16/90)
In article <1990Jan14.210745.16706@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes: >There are a lot of system information programs around. That is >programs which examine your PC and give details of the various >aspects of your hardware. Recently I obtained (/pc/pd2/)sysid47.zip >package, and it is available by anonymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi. >It gives 16 pages of detailed information. It ran nicely on my >Zenith z-181 laptop, but when I tried it at office on my 386 16Mhz >Osborne, the program froze completely on page 2. Only a cold boot >could restart the machine. Pity, but compatibility problems with >programs which use complicated internal calls is quite common. >................................................................... >Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) Over the past year, I've added numerous features to the SYSID 4.4 version. The 4.7 was the first 'new' one I'd seen. My own version (I call it 4.8), has FULL support for DOS 4 (4.7 will lock up under DOS 4), page selection (you don't have to go through all in a row), and, I hope, correct detection of the '486!! The primary change I would like to add is detection of Compaq DOS 3.31 (or similar others). I don't believe that large partitions under 3.31 will work under my version of SYSID. I only check for the presense of DOS 4, and use the extended DOS read. Do all 3.31 support large partitions? Will it be possible to find a reliable way of checking the availability of extended DOS read? I would also like to know as many hard disk partition types as possible. And how to tell 'logical' drives in DOS's extended partitions. And how DiskManager/Speedstore get 16 partitions on the disk. Andrew Rossmann andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM