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Date:      Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:37:45 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        sam@pcuf.fi
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cpu class & features
Message-ID:  <3DCAF949.8F5F891B@mindspring.com>
References:  <200211071712.46671.sam@pcuf.fi>

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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.

-- Terry

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