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Originally Posted by Narue
>what is cpuid...
An x86 instruction. There may be a tool named after it, but I know there's a website called cpuid.com that has resources for the x86. If niteice was talking about the instruction then I have no idea what his point was. I could say that mov has practical applications as well, and it's way more common than cpuid.  |
Hmm, I should have been more clear. I was suggesting that, if Kilo wants a project, he should look into the CPU identification features. It's a serious project, not a little "hello, world" thing, and I feel that it uses enough different features of assembly to be a "perfect noob project".
Now, I wouldn't recommend that one should mess with cpuid as a first project, but once one has acquired some knowledge of how to get data from registers, perform bitwise operations, etc.
In other words, do other things first, I was just kinda throwing the idea out there for consideration.
