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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: what kind of machine am I
Message-ID: <7844@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 15 May 91 22:06:44 GMT
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>elif [ -f /bin/i286 ] && /bin/i286; then
>	echo 286
>elif [ -f /bin/i386 ] && /bin/i386; then
>	echo 386
>elif [ -f /bin/i486 ] && /bin/i486; then
>	echo 486
>elif [ -f /bin/i586 ] && /bin/i586; then
>	echo 586

Are there *really* commands for "i486" and "i586"?  I wouldn't be at all
surprised if System V releases for 386's, 486's, and up weren't
mostly-generic "386-and-up" systems, such that only some small part of
the kernel code cared which of the implementations of the 386-and-up
architecture they were running on.

Also, I think the command for the 286 is called "iapx286" or maybe
"iAPX286".