Richard Owlett <rowl...@access.net> wrote: > My formal programming background is limited to an introductory course > using CORC/CUPL (Dartmouth's BASIC being years in future). [snip]
That doesn't seem to be quite right. CORC preceded Dartmouth BASIC by a couple of years, whilst CUPL followed it by two years, if I am to believe wikipedia. > On 08/28/2024 09:07 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > > It seems to me that you're doing your own thing in > > your own way and expecting us to accomodate that, which seems at > > least somewhat unreasonable. For background: the lscpu architecture > > field doesn't tell you what kind of cpu you're running. Instead, it > > tells you the architecture of the system on which lscpu is running, > > and more specifically, what architecture the *kernel* is built > > for. > > DEBIAN documentation appears to disagree with you.The manpage[1] > states: > > lscpu - display information about the CPU architecture You are once again personalising matters when there's no need, as well as getting facts wrong. This is bad; please try to improve. Debian is sometimes spelled with mixed case as I have done, and sometimes all in lower case. It is not usually spelled all in upper case and doing so in email makes it seem that you are shouting the word for emphasis. Maybe you are, but you are wrong to do so. Firstly, manpages are not "Debian documentation". That is, they are for the most part generated by the authors of individual packages and are then incorporated in Debian. Sometimes a Debian member will write a manpage if there is none for a particular package. Secondly, when reading a manpage it is wise not to rely too much on the one-line description. If you read the rest of the page it tells you where the information comes from and you could imply more from that. > > FWIW, there isn't any reasonably general x86 OS that maintains a > > comprehensive list of every possible computer model it will run > > on. > > That was *NOT* the question. > > I ask "What doth DEBIAN require of my CPU?" Again, you seem to be railing against people who are trying to help you. The most important thing to do is to try to improve how you express yourself, and how you interpret what other people say. I hope you can. > [1] https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/util-linux/lscpu.1.en.html
