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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Fri, 13 May 2005 21:19:42 -0500 (CDT)
James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net> wrote:

> I ran into the following information reading an article on linuxtoday. 
> Seemed like this program could be of key interest to those of us who 
> inherit alot of old hardware and want to analyze its potential usefulness 
> under Linux. Source code is only about 32kb. Not sure if it will compile 
> on libc5, but it may be worth looking into in case it does, or could be 
> compiled using uclibc. Here's the info from the article:
> 
> Identifying hardware without having to physically open the box is a 
> tremendous time-saver, and the right utility will tell you more than a 
> physical examination of the hardware.
> 
> A particularly useful software utility for this is dmidecode. dmidecode 
> reads information about a system's hardware as it is described in the 
> system BIOS, according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. (SMBIOS stands for 
> System Management BIOS, while DMI stands for Desktop Management 
> Interface.) dmidecode reads specs like system manufacturer, model name, 
> serial numbers, CPU data, types of expansion slots, and pretty much 
> everything on the mainboard, like so:

    <snipped>

    For DOS, I use NSSI for the same purpose.    http://www.navsoft.cz/

    Do you have a URL for dmidecode ?

Regards,
         Ron

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