From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 7 15:39:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D4037B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:39:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B3943E4A for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:39:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0030.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.30] helo=mindspring.com) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 189wFR-0004gZ-00; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:39:41 -0800 Message-ID: <3DCAF949.8F5F891B@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:37:45 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sam@pcuf.fi Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cpu class & features References: <200211071712.46671.sam@pcuf.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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