barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (05/23/91)
Here's a useful command: hostinfo
Lets try it out:
arnold>hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 2.1: Thu Mar 7 19:13:47 PST 1991; /ph1_sources/projects/mk-108.14/RELEASE
Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
Processor active: 0
Primary memory available: 8.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 42 tasks, 71 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.00, Mach factor: 0.99
arnold>
Hmm, Mach factor of 0.99---looks like I'm just about
to break the sound barrier!
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Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet) barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (NeXTMail)root@NEXTSERVER.CS.STTHOMAS.EDU (Max Tardiveau) (05/25/91)
In <1991May22.172900.1293@math.ucla.edu>, news@math.ucla.edu says : > Here's a useful command: hostinfo > Lets try it out: > > arnold>hostinfo > Mach kernel version: > NeXT Mach 2.1: Thu Mar 7 19:13:47 PST 1991; > /ph1_sources/projects/mk-108.14/RELEASE > [...] For people who like living on the edge, here is a cheap thrill :-) : On Suns, you can burn in a message and an icon into EPROM, so that you company name and logo is displayed every time you turn your Sun on. You can't really do that on the NeXT, the closest thing being probably a customized login window. But wait ! There is hope ! Using you favorite binary editor (like uzap or fm, if you don't have one, I can mail it to you), edit /sdmach (gasp!). You can replace the stupid line that indicates the source directory with anything you want (up to 80 characters, I think). This message is of course displayed only if your NeXT is set up to boot up with the monitor window. So when I boot up, I get : NeXT ROM Monitor 1.0 v41 NeXT Mach 2.0: Wed Nov 21 12:46:53 PST 1990 This computer belongs to the University of St. Thomas, Dept. of Computer Science FPU version 0x0 physical memory = 12.00 megabytes. available memory = 11.00 megabytes. etc... Just another proof that some people have way too much free time on their hands (yeah, right). --------------------------------------------------------------- Max Tardiveau Department of Computer Science University of St.Thomas St.Paul, MN 55105 Internet : m9tardiv@cs.stthomas.edu --------------------------------------------------------------- "I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."