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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
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Subject: Re: how to find hw configuration?
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Date: 18 Aug 90 22:04:04 GMT
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In <1990Aug18.055015.1472@csrd.uiuc.edu> kai@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Kuck And Associates) writes:

| Is there a command or file accessible to a normal user that will describe
| the hardware configuration of the SGI Iris 4D system being used?  For example,
| number, speed and type of processors, total amount of memory...
| 

Sure, check out the hinv command.  It should list all the devices
on the system (in some cases, only if the driver is also installed),
the amount of memory, and the CPU speed(s).

For programmatic use, see getinvent(3).
--

	Dave Olson

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.