Querying Linux for Hardware Info

KDE answers the questions below, if I select "System Tools" > "Info Center"; but I need to be querying a series of boxes (some of them with older Linux distributions) with only command line access. So how do I ask Linux the following questions on the command line?

1. What kind of CPU?

2. How much total RAM on the box?

Thanks,
Vic
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