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From: tedcrane@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ted Crane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: determining the CPU type of a VAX from a non-privileged program
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Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 15:11:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 30 15:11:40 1987
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Have you considered looking in the SYS$LIBRARY files which document all
the system constants?  These include the various versions of LIB.* and 
STARLET.*.

In there you will find the constants defined for many CPU types and device
types.  As such files go, they are reasonably well documented.