Ms-dos 6.22
 

In the world of radio communications, you often have very old technonlogy that is still "out there" and runing. Currently I have a Motorola application which logs system usage. It's running on a very old machine. It's DOS based.
The machine is running MS-DOS 6.22. What command would I enter to find out which vintage (speed) of processor it has? I think it's a 386 but don't know for sure. Thanks for the helpSmileWavy

I dont know why motorola wont update anything. Try to program a GM300 or the like. There are still a ton of them out there in use.

Check the bios when it boots.

'msd' gives cpu info

It has been a while since I used DOS but I don't think there is a command for that. You call it is system, I presume it is a computer. When you reboot it the BIOS shows for a shot period. To get into the bios you will have to hit the del or F1 or some other function key. It may well have a prompt like hit F2 for system or some such.

Once you get into the BIOS it will identify the CPU & the memory. Just poke around. Be sure NOT to save any changes when you exit BIOS unless you are real sure you want to change something.

Edit: I forgot about MSD.

I still have a Microst Software Box with a set of DOS 6.22 floppies sitting on the shelf in my closet at home. I even have my Compac DOS 2.1 system floppies.

The machine is running. I don't want to shut it down; I'm afraid it might not come back up therefore the question.

There's no money it it for Moto to do that. They prefer to sell you new stuff.

No way to crack open the case and have a peek inside without shutting it down?

My first laptop, still have it, has 6.22 on it. I had to manually load it on there, as the internal diskette was only a 720K.

Yes MSD is the command , but if the processor is newer it probably won't tell you to much.