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The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

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Information provided by MSD
 
Whether you examine the information through MSD's interface or through a
report, the MSD program can provide detailed technical information about
your computer's:
 
♦  Model and processor
 
♦  Memory
 
♦  Video adapter
 
♦  Version of MS-DOS
 
♦  Mouse
 
♦  Other adapters
 
♦  Disk drives
 
♦  LPT ports
 
♦  COM ports
 
♦  IRQ status
 
♦  Terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs
 
♦  Device drivers
 
MSD Button Options
 
The following is a brief description of the buttons that appear on MSD's
main screen:
 
Computer
    Displays computer manufacturer, processor type, and bus type; ROM BIOS
    manufacturer, version and date; keyboard type; DMA controller
    configuration; and math coprocessor status.
 
Memory
    Displays a map of the upper memory area (UMA) ── the memory region from
    640K to 1024K.
 
Video
    Shows your video card manufacturer, model, and type; video BIOS version
    and date; and current video mode.
 
Network
    Displays network-specific configuration information.
 
Operating System
    Displays the operating system version, location of MS-DOS in memory, the
    drive the computer was started from, the current environment settings,
    and the path from which MSD was run.
 
Mouse
    Shows the MS-DOS mouse driver version, mouse type, mouse interrupt
    request line (IRQ) number, and other information specific to the
    configuration of the mouse.
 
Other Adapters
    Displays the game card status for up to two game devices or joysticks.
 
Disk Drives
    Displays the size and number of bytes free on local and remote drives.
 
LPT Ports
    Displays the port addresses of all installed parallel ports, and
    dynamically displays the status of each port.
 
COM Ports
    Displays the port addresses and current communications parameters of all
    installed serial ports, and displays the status of each port.
 
IRQ Status
    Displays the configuration of the hardware IRQs.
 
TSR Programs
    Displays the name, location in memory, and size of each program loaded
    in memory at the time MSD was run.
 
Device Drivers
    Displays the names of all device drivers installed at the time MSD was
    run.
 
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