Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:37:45 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: sam@pcuf.fi Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cpu class & features Message-ID: <3DCAF949.8F5F891B@mindspring.com> References: <200211071712.46671.sam@pcuf.fi>
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Sam wrote: > I'm writing an application that needs info on the machine cpu architecture, > the cpu class, and the cpu features. Is this a status display (e.g. "About This Computer...") for a human to read? If not, the entire point of an OS is to hide that information from you, so that you can write code that runs on the OS, instead of writing code that runs only on particular hardware. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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