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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Qestions
Message-ID: <2022@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Jun-87 12:44:20 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 13 12:44:20 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jun-87 01:58:25 EDT
References: <8706122325.AA17348@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8706122325.AA17348@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
> Question:
>     Is there any way to identify the MACHINE that a program is runing on?
> (A1000, A500, A2000, A60,000).  Also it's street price, in German marks.

No, the machines are intended to be highly compatible, so we didn't go to any
particular effor to provide machine-id registers or such foolishness.  The
general idea is that software should be written to run on any of the machines,
with any differences being on a "feature" basis rather than a "model" basis.

Custom chips have ID registers/bits.  You can tell which joystick port the light
pen is on by programatically twitching the fire button, etc.

The "street price", even in DM, is up to the dealer population.  All we know
about is a "list price" which is somehow related to the "dealer price". 8-)

-- 
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