How do you identify VAX/PMAX cpu's from software?

[Mitch Collinsworth]

In article <893 at sceard.COM> mrm at sceard.COM (0040-M.R.Murphy) writes:

>What you do is look at the front panel of the computer (or the invoice
>for the system) and then write a shell script /etc/what_kind_of_system_this_is
>that echos said information. This then has the advantage of being able to
>be run on lots of different kinds of systems. Even to be extended to the
>determination of cabinet configuration, color, or line voltage...
>
>Why, the concept can even be used in (shudder) VMS. The design of the format
>for the information from the script is left as an excercise for the reader.

VMS has a system service call that can be used to get all sorts of useful
information including the CPU type, the VAX model name, the number of CPUs
and how many are active, etc.  Perhaps Ultrix could use a similar function.

-Mitch Collinsworth
 mitch at squid.tn.cornell.edu