How do you get serial number?

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From: estey
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1991 17:52

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Date: 6 Mar 91 15:11:00 MST
From: "ROBERT W. ESTEY JR" <estey@bigvax>

Is there anyone out there that can tell me how to get the s/n of a
DECstation 3100 CPU?

On SUN systems I can use the hostid and it returns its address.
On DEC systems it returns 0.  

Digital says to use the ethernet address but thats not what we need.

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