On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Craig Spooner wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> The processor() function seems to return "Motorola PowerPC" on all
> machines of that architecture. So, it would seem to be analagous to
> the 'sysa' (system architecture) gestalt selector rather than the
> 'cput' (CPU type) selector. For my purposes, the system architecture
> is not very informative. Is there a way to query the system for the
> actual CPU type?
Just out of curiosity, why do you need to know this?
> Just as an aside, I came upon this problem when I tested one of my
> SuperCard apps on a G4. SC's processor() function, which, btw,
> checks CPU type, returns "unknown." I started wondering what MC
> would do, and discovered that it sees all Power Macs as simply
> "Motorola PowerPC."
I'd say this is an improvement over SuperCard's behavior ;-) But
we're open to suggestions as to what the return values of this, and
the machine() function, should be.
Regards,
Scott
> Craig
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