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From: Sam <sam@pcuf.fi>
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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: cpu class & features
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:16:37 -0500
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On Thursday 07 November 2002 06:37 pm, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 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.

No. If you really need to know, it is for implementing a Windows API call
on FreeBSD for Wine.

I'm not interested in getting into a flame war on what a point of an OS
is, what should be allowed and what should not. But there are _many_
other legitimate reasons to need that info other than "about this
computer" display.

> -- Terry

Sam


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