User's System

[Roger Eller]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Richmond wrote:

> The documentation is a bit 'dicky', and on my Linux box "put the machine"
> gives me i686 (which presumably is going to be
> exactly what "put the machine" would do if the same machine were running
> Windows); so, a fat lot of good.
>
> My macMini PPC gets 'unknown' from "put the machine'; also fairly useless.
>
> HOWEVER: "put the platform" yields 'Linux' and 'MacOS' respectively; and,
> I assume, this should give you 'Windows' or somesuch
> for Windows.
>
> I wonder what the purpose of 'machine' is as it is so obviously incomplete?
>
> Richmond.


Windows returns "Win32" as the platform (even when running a 64-bit OS).
 This is probably because the LC engine itself is still 32-bit, and
therefore doesn't see the machine beyond it's own encapsulation in 32-bit
space.

~Roger