call far is the assembly language command to read the intel cpu identification.
call far is the assembly language command to read the intel cpu identification.
what is the assembly language command to read the intel cpu identification?
call far
bullet::::- the cpuid opcode is a processor supplementary instruction (its name derived from cpu identification) for the x86 architecture. it was introduced by intel in 1993 when it introduced the pentium and sl-enhanced 486 processors.









































user application uptake of the x86 extensions has been slow with even bare minimum baseline mmx and sse support (in some cases) being non-existent by applications some 10 years after these extensions became commonly available. distributed computing has accelerated the use of these extensions in the scientific community—and many scientific applications refuse to run unless the cpu supports sse2 or sse3.
streaming simd extensions
two examples of cpus that have two different sets of mnemonics are the intel 8080 family and the intel 8086/8088. because intel claimed copyright on its assembly language mnemonics (on each page of their documentation published in the 1970s and early 1980s, at least), some companies that independently produced cpus compatible with intel instruction sets invented their own mnemonics. the zilog z80 cpu, an enhancement of the intel 8080a, supports all the 8080a instructions plus many more; zilog invented an entirely new assembly language, not only for the new instructions but also for all of the 8080a instructions. for example, where intel uses the mnemonics "mov", "mvi", "lda", "sta", "lxi", "ldax", "stax", "lhld", and "shld" for various data transfer instructions, the z80 assembly language uses the mnemonic "ld" for all of them. a similar case is the nec v30 and v20 cpus, enhanced copies of the intel 8086 and 8088, respectively. like zilog with the z80, nec invented new mnemonics for all of the 8086 and 8088 instructions, to avoid accusations of infringement of intel's copyright. (it is questionable whether such copyrights can be valid, and later cpu companies such as amd and cyrix republished intel's x86/ia-32 instruction mnemonics exactly with neither permission nor legal penalty.) it is doubtful whether in practice many people who programmed the v20 and v30 actually wrote in nec's assembly language rather than intel's; since any two assembly languages for the same instruction set architecture are isomorphic (somewhat like english and pig latin), there is no requirement to use a manufacturer's own published assembly language with that manufacturer's products.
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