BINGO - was [Re: Identifying CPU and current OS]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

On 9/30/25 12:25 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> [SNIP]
>
> And based on OP's original question of "How do I discover the CPU's
> bus width?", he probably should have asked how to determine the
> register size of the CPU.  I think that was closer to what he wanted
> to know.
>  

YES.
> On 9/28/25 7:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid.
> > I need to know the data bus width.
> > [snip]

Then clarified by posting:
> On 9/29/25 5:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > [snip]
> > My underlying question was explicitly the character of the installed 
> > processor.

I now formally ask:
How do I determine the register size of its CPU (its architecture)?

Note:
I was an active computer _user_ surrounded by *GEEKS* a decade before 
the 8080 was introduced, not buying my first machine {a Commodore PET} 
until 1977. I tend to speak that era's idiom.