On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:23:40PM -0300, Dr Beco wrote: > Hoping to add some 'reference', so we can compare actual microcode > versions, I find myself with > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep microcode > microcode 0x1b > ... Slighly faster to type and run $ grep microcode /proc/cpuinfo microcode : 0x1b See <http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html> for some history.