RAH@IBM.COM ("Russell A. Heise") (07/17/90)
mike@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Mike Elliot) writes: > ... > > This brings me to the next part of the project, copyprotection. Does > the 6000 have an internal hardware id like the suns, or can I get > an external one like the HP's? How do I talk to them? If the above two > don't exist, what do others out there do for copyprotection. Yes, each RISC System/6000 has a machine-unique identifier. You can get to it using 'uname -m'. This command returns 12 digits: 00CCCCCCMMXX where, 0 -- always 0 C -- unique CPU serial number M -- machine size ID X -- model number (presently unused) Russ Heise, AIX Technical Support, IBM