[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kc4grs$75a$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> Robert A. Brooks wrote 2013-01-03 18:45:
> > On 1/3/2013 1:28 AM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> >> In contrast to my recent remark (I was looking for a name, not a
> >> number), ANAL/SYS does show the hardware version for the DE500, and it
> >> it differs between two types of machine.  What I see is
> >>
> >> 02000030
> >> 02000041
> >>
> >> The latter is on a machine at 100 FD and the former on those at 10 HD.
> >>
> >> Can 02000030 do better than 10 HD?
> >
> > What's the output of
> >
> > $ write sys$output f$fgetdvi( <ethernet devnam>, "adapater_ident" )
> >
> 
> On what version of VMS does that work?
> Do you have some example output from that command?
> And is it different then SHO DEV <ethernet devnam> /FULL?

It works but is undocumented on 7.3-2.  SHOW DEVICE doesn't mention the 
speed.

> On my 8.4 Alpha, neither "f$fgetdvi" or "adapater_ident" works.

Correct the typos!

$ write sys$output f$getdvi("EWA0", "adapter_ident" )