daemon@ucbvax.UUCP (08/21/83)
From GEOFF5@SRI-CSL Sun Aug 21 03:16:18 1983 Okay, folks, so what's the story here? Are the CPU SID registers actually identical? Or is it DCL that's providing some weird, identical number for all VAXen? I am assuming it's the latter. I have an application which could benefit from knowing the machine's serial number, in an effort to gensym unique identifiers. The Question: what's the easiest way to do this \from C/, not from DCL. If more than one machine has the same serial number in its hardware, of course, then I'm screwed. If this is true, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanx much! <LNF>