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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers A question about Unix Architecture. Post 302688031 by jim mcnamara on Friday 17th of August 2012 12:24:21 PM
Old 08-17-2012
Another way to look at UNIX/Linux:

A range of scale from small to ridiculous:
It runs some kids toys, your refrigerator, your android, your car, most electric utility billing systems, and very LARGE computer clusters that have thousands of individual computers working on a single problem.

Some of the world's fastest installations are UNIX/Linux clusters.

So it is literally everywhere.
 

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cpu_family(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual					       cpu_family(3alleg4)

NAME
cpu_family - Contains the CPU type. Allegro game programming library. SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h> extern int cpu_family; DESCRIPTION
Contains the Intel type, where applicable. Allegro defines the following CPU family types: CPU_FAMILY_UNKNOWN - The type of processor is unknown CPU_FAMILY_I386 - The processor is an Intel-compatible 386 CPU_FAMILY_I486 - The processor is an Intel-compatible 486 CPU_FAMILY_I586 - The processor is a Pentium or equivalent CPU_FAMILY_I686 - The processor is a Pentium Pro, II, III or equivalent CPU_FAMILY_ITANIUM - The processor is an Itanium processor CPU_FAMILY_POWERPC - The processor is a PowerPC processor CPU_FAMILY_EXTENDED - The processor type needs to be read from the cpu_model You can read this variable after you have called check_cpu() (which is automatically called by allegro_init()). SEE ALSO
check_cpu(3alleg4), cpu_vendor(3alleg4), cpu_model(3alleg4), cpu_capabilities(3alleg4), allegro_init(3alleg4) Allegro version 4.4.2 cpu_family(3alleg4)
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