In message <[email protected]> on Fri, 15 May 2009 09:01:53 
-0500 (CDT), [email protected] (Steven M. Schweda) said:

sms> From: Richard Levitte <[email protected]>
sms> 
sms> > [...]
sms> > Oh, right, there is ONE thing I can mention already...  I'm not going
sms> > to change the tests for f$getsyi("CPU") to ones for
sms> > f$getsyi("HW_MODEL"), because there are some (VAX) VMS versions out
sms> > there that do not support the latter and therefore create failure.
sms> 
sms>    I'll admit that I didn't test anything older than VMS V7.3, but:
sms> 
sms> WIMP $ write sys$output f$getsyi( "VERSION")
sms> V5.4
sms> WIMP $ write sys$output f$getsyi( "HW_MODEL")
sms> 49
sms> 
sms>    V5.4 (circa 1990) is as far back as I can go.  How far back do you
sms> really expect to go?
sms> 
sms>    Wake me when you have a valid complaint.

Hmmm, maybe I'm wrong then...  It's odd, because back when I decided
to use f$getsyi("CPU"), I did hit some problems with "HW_MODEL" and
"HW_NAME"...  But then, if those two exist in all VMS versions alive
today, wouldn't it be even easier to use "HW_NAME"?

Cheers,
Richard

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