Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!BRL.MIL!mike From: mike@BRL.MIL (Mike Muuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: 4D Inventory Message-ID: <8902251830.aa08736@SPARK.BRL.MIL> Date: 25 Feb 89 23:30:39 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Paul Stay told me about two really useful capabilities that I was previously unaware of: The /bin/hinv program prints out an inventory of what hardware is installed on the machine. For example, my machine says: /bin/hinv 2 16 MHZ IP5 Processors FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 1.5 CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 1.6 Data cache size: 64 Kbytes Instruction cache size: 64 Kbytes Main memory size: 16 Mbytes Interphase 4201 4-drive ESDI disk controller 0 ESDI Disk drive: unit 0 on Interphase controller 0 GT Graphic option installed Integral Ethernet controller Integral SCSI controller This information is available to programmers using the getinvent() library call and the header file . Very useful, -Mike