Cpu ID under UNIX

[rml at hpfcla.UUCP]

> The VAX hardware supports the ability of obtaining the CPU id. Under
> VMS its obtained by the call to LIB$GETSYI. Has anyone done this
> under UNIX. 

At HP we have extended the utsname structure returned by uname(2) to
include a field (array of char) for the CPU id.  The field contains all
nulls for hardware without a machine-readable id.

		Bob Lenk
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