Re: distinguish solaris 1 (SunOS 4) from solaris 2.x?

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From: Larry W. Virden
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 13:03

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>From: gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering)
> I think that's a major design error from sun - no way to determine the
> exact type of machine by C preprocessor statements.

I have never seen a system - Mac, MSDOS, Ultrix, SunOS, etc. which allowed
one to determine the exact OS, hardware, patch level, products, etc. all
by preprocessor statements.
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