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from: ducky@yabbs
date: 1994-02-25 09:01:30
subject: re: x86 Unices multi-user perfo

From: ducky@yabbs
To: htoaster@yabbs
Subject: re: x86 Unices multi-user perfo
Date: Fri Feb 25 09:01:30 1994

In message re: x86 Unices multi-user perfo, htoaster said:
> In message re: x86 Unices multi-user perfo, JasonLee said:
> > What's weird about this is that when I connect here from my VMS account, I 
> > get the line:
> > CONNECTED TO PHRED.PC.CC.CMU.EDU, A 386PC RUNNING UNIX
> 
> well, that is because the OS that I am running is designed around 386 pc's,
> and so it probably just returns that.

no, actually it is because CMU includes HINFO lines in DNS entries for
machines, and phred's lists "PC/386" as the CPU, and "UNIX" as the OS.  :-)

-k

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