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Subject: getting a machine's serial number
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Date: Sun, 21-Aug-83 06:16:50 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 21 06:16:50 1983
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From GEOFF5@SRI-CSL  Sun Aug 21 03:16:18 1983
Okay, folks, so what's the story here?  Are the CPU SID registers
actually identical?  Or is it DCL that's providing some weird,
identical number for all VAXen?

I am assuming it's the latter.  I have an application which could
benefit from knowing the machine's serial number, in an effort to
gensym unique identifiers.  The Question:  what's the easiest way to
do this \from C/, not from DCL.

If more than one machine has the same serial number in its hardware,
of course, then I'm screwed.  If this is true, I'd appreciate hearing
about it.

Thanx much!

						<LNF>