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From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: HELP me access a VAX CPU serial number from UNIX
Message-ID: <135@cubsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jan-84 12:21:54 EST
Article-I.D.: cubsvax.135
Posted: Wed Jan  4 12:21:54 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Jan-84 02:21:38 EST
Organization: Columbia Univ Biology, New York City
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Does anyone out there know how to access the serial number of a
VAX from UNIX?  (For the purpose of maintaining security of proprietary
software.)  Please reply by mail, since I don't subscribe to this
newsgroup.  (Don't consider myself a wizard!)

By the way, some people claim that **every** cpu has such a facility
as a machine instruction.  Is this a myth?

{philabs,cmcl2!rocky2}!cubsvax!peters
(Peter S Shenkin; Dept of Biol Sci; Columbia Univ; NY, NY 10027; 212-280-5517)