Missing define?

[Ed Greshko]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Larry Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> Oh! I thought I had a 486 om my Dell machine. I guess it can't be,
>>> because Fedora Core 3 is happily running on it. Unfortunately I
>>> can't confirm this, because I have no idea how to query the
>>> processor type from the OS, and it doesn't seem to want to stop at
>>> the BIOS when I hit F10 on power-up.
>> I never ran FC3.  So, I don't know if it used /proc.  If it does, you can
>> always type "cat /proc/cpuinfo".
> 
> I skipped over FC3, but /proc has been around for a long time,
> definitely way before Fedora. :)

That's good to know.  I don't have any ancient O/S up and running.

> Other ways to get the archetecture are 'arch' or 'uname -m'.  I'm sure
> there are plenty of others.

But, do those really tell you the truth about the HW....or just what
version/type of OS you have loaded?

I prefer cat'ing cpuinfo since it tells me "Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz"
and I really know what processor is installed.

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