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in reply to Re^2: Current processor frequency?
in thread Current processor frequency?

Not all of that, /proc/cpuinfo reports both model (which would be your rated maximum clock speed) and current speed (cpu MHz), for example:
model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - M 1200MHz cpu MHz : 800.00