February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
383 pages
11h 49m
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hwprefs
hwprefs [-h] hwprefs [-v]parameter[=value] [parameter[=value]]...
Prints some information about the system to standard output. This option is installed as part of the Computer Hardware Understanding Development (CHUD) set of developer tools.
Prints a usage statement to standard error.
Prints information verbosely.
parameter
One of the following: cpus reports the number
of CPUs (either 1 or 2),
cpunap reports whether the CPU may slow down
to conserve energy (either 0 or
1), hwprefetch reports the
number of prefetch engines used by a G5 CPU (either
4 or 8), and
ostype reports the code name for the
system’s OS: Cheetah (Mac OS X 10.0), Puma (10.1),
Jaguar (10.2), Smeagol (10.2.7), or Panther (10.3).
/usr/bin
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