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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 1999 00:18:51 +0200
From:      Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compaq and FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199910212218.XAA21893@zed.ludd.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>  of "Thu, 21 Oct 1999 16:08:53 CDT." <19991021160853.T8902@futuresouth.com> 

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> On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 07:59:29PM +0000, a little birdie told me
> that Nathan Kinsman remarked
> > =

> > I Need to upgrade a development (web/sql) server, but I'm not too hap=
py
> > with Intel's Pentium III serial numbers and so I wouldn't mind gettin=
g
> =

> Um, don't Alpha's all have serial numbres in-chip?
> And SPARC's, and...

Not SPARC's. Hostid is in the nvram/clock chip. You read it from the kern=
el, so =

you can patch it after the OS has started. (Nice if you have to move a li=
cense =

server... :-)




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