04-24-2012
I do think people have been somewhat conned into giving up a lot of functionality for the appearance of convenience, and often forgotten why computers were invented in the first place.
It used to be, you got a computer because you had a job in mind for it. Now they're mostly used as multipurpose communication devices; more people are using them than ever before, and don't really care to understand how they work beyond the cargo-cult level. Should they happen to need a computer to do computation, they have no idea the thing they're sitting at can actually do. I've seen people picking through hundreds of megabytes of spreadsheets, by hand, to mine the data they want. For crying out loud, that's what they invented punchcard tabulators for a century ago, their computer's very most distant ancestor.
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machid(1) User Commands machid(1)
NAME
machid, sun, iAPX286, i286, i386, i486, i860, pdp11, sparc, u3b, u3b2, u3b5, u3b15, vax, u370 - get processor type truth value
SYNOPSIS
sun
iAPX286
i386
pdp11
sparc
u3b
u3b2
u3b5
u3b15
vax
u370
DESCRIPTION
The following commands will return a true value (exit code of 0) if you are using an instruction set that the command name indicates.
sun True if you are on a Sun system.
iAPX286 True if you are on a computer using an iAPX286 processor.
i386 True if you are on a computer using an iAPX386 processor.
pdp11 True if you are on a PDP-11/45tm or PDP-11/70tm.
sparc True if you are on a computer using a SPARC-family processor.
u3b True if you are on a 3B20 computer.
u3b2 True if you are on a 3B2 computer.
u3b5 True if you are on a 3B5 computer.
u3b15 True if you are on a 3B15 computer.
vax True if you are on a VAX-11/750tm or VAX-11/780tm.
u370 True if you are on an IBM(R) System/370tm computer.
The commands that do not apply will return a false (non-zero) value. These commands are often used within makefiles (see make(1S)) and
shell scripts (see sh(1)) to increase portability.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
make(1S), sh(1), test(1), true(1), uname(1), attributes(5)
NOTES
The machid family of commands is obsolete. Use uname -p and uname -m instead.
SunOS 5.11 5 Jul 1990 machid(1)