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Sysinfo

software for the Commodore Amiga

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 11, 2023
Entity authorityQ17048840
Source-derived summary

Sysinfo is a shareware program written completely in Assembler for the Motorola 68k equipped Amiga computers to benchmark system performance. Sysinfo shows which version of system software is present in ROM, which hardware is present, and which operating mode the hardware uses.

Sample output

SYSINFO V3.22 An Amiga System Information Program Written in Assembler

Nic Wilson Brisbane Australia. nic AT nicwilson dot com

SYSTEM SOFTWARE INSTALLED LIBRARIES INTERNAL HARDWARE MODES

kickstart (512K) $00F80000 V37.350 Clock CLOCK NOT FOUND

utility CHIP RAM $00000554 V37.3 DMA/Gfx ECS AGNUS - 2Meg

graphics CHIP RAM $00002A68 V37.41 Mode NTSC:Hires

keymap CHIP RAM $00006D68 V37.2 Display ECS DENISE

layers CHIP RAM $000081D8 V37.9 CPU/MHz 68000 7.16

intuition CHIP RAM $00009984 V37.331 FPU NONE

dos CHIP RAM $00011498 V37.45 MMU N/A

VBR N/A

SPEED COMPARISONS Comment What can I say!

Dhrystones 519 You X Horiz KHz 15.72

A600 68000 7MHz 0.98 X EClock Hz 715909

B2000 68000 7MHz 0.74 X Ramsey rev N/A ICache N/A

A1200 EC020 14MHz 0.42 XX Gary rev N/A DCache N/A

A2500 68020 14MHz 0.25 XXX Card Slot YES IBurst N/A

A3000 68030 25MHz 0.11 XXXXX Vert Hz 60 DBurst N/A

A4000 68040 25MHz 0.02 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Supply Hz 60 CBack N/A

CPU Mips 0.54

FPU MFlops N/A QUIT MEMORY BOARDS ICACHE IBURST CBACK

Chip Speed vs A600 1.00 DRIVES SPEED PRINT DCACHE DBURST ALL [1]

SYSINFO V4.0 An Amiga System Information Program Written in Assembler

Contact address SysInfo@d0.se web page http://sysinfo.d0.se

SYSTEM SOFTWARE INSTALLED LIBRARIES INTERNAL HARDWARE MODES

kickstart (512K) $00F80000 V37.175 Clock CLOCK FOUND

utility CHIP RAM $000007CC V37.3 DMA/Gfx STD AGNUS - 512K

graphics CHIP RAM $00004258 V37.35 Mode PAL

keymap CHIP RAM $00008548 V37.2 Display STD DENISE

layers CHIP RAM $000099B8 V37.7 CPU/MHz 68000 7.09

intuition CHIP RAM $00009E5C V37.318 FPU NONE

dos CHIP RAM $00012470 V37.44 MMU N/A

VBR N/A

SPEED COMPARISONS Comment What can I say!

Editorial summary

“Sysinfo” enters the record as software for the Commodore Amiga. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sysinfo, software and Commodore can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 309-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sysinfo, software and Commodore.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sysinfo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sysinfo, software and Commodore provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 11, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q17048840. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Check terminology, classification and the date of the cited evidence. Scientific names and technical consensus can change while older records retain historical value.

Best used for
  • Current terminology
  • Classification context
  • Finding cited technical literature
Verify next

Primary datasets, specimen catalogues, standards bodies and the most recent peer-reviewed literature.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Sysinfo”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sysinfo primary sources, Sysinfo archive and Sysinfo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Sysinfo”?
  2. Has classification or technical consensus changed since the cited source?
  3. Which observation, specimen, dataset or publication supports the account?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Sysinfo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.