Todd Zullinger wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> Larry Phillips wrote: >> >>> Oh! I thought I had a 486 om my Dell machine. I guess it can't be, >>> because Fedora Core 3 is happily running on it. Unfortunately I >>> can't confirm this, because I have no idea how to query the >>> processor type from the OS, and it doesn't seem to want to stop at >>> the BIOS when I hit F10 on power-up. >> I never ran FC3. So, I don't know if it used /proc. If it does, you can >> always type "cat /proc/cpuinfo". > > I skipped over FC3, but /proc has been around for a long time, > definitely way before Fedora. :) That's good to know. I don't have any ancient O/S up and running. > Other ways to get the archetecture are 'arch' or 'uname -m'. I'm sure > there are plenty of others. But, do those really tell you the truth about the HW....or just what version/type of OS you have loaded? I prefer cat'ing cpuinfo since it tells me "Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz" and I really know what processor is installed. -- "When anyone says `theoretically,' they really mean `not really.'" -- David Parnas
