Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:16:37 -0500 From: Sam <sam@pcuf.fi> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cpu class & features Message-ID: <200211071916.37988.sam@pcuf.fi> In-Reply-To: <3DCAF949.8F5F891B@mindspring.com> References: <200211071712.46671.sam@pcuf.fi> <3DCAF949.8F5F891B@mindspring.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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