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can you detect virtual vs physical calculator in a program? - dmh - 03-05-2024 03:33 AM
I have a Python program that runs much faster on the virtual Prime cf the physical Prime so I was hoping there was some programmatical way to detect one vs the other, either natively in Python or via hpprime.eval().
I note that Help, About shows "Hardware: Emu" but I can't find this in a variable.
Is this possible?
RE: can you detect virtual vs physical calculator in a program? - Joe Horn - 03-05-2024 04:02 AM
Try the command VERSION(2). It returns the hardware version ("A", "C", or "D") on physical calculators. It might return "Emu" on your virtual machine.
RE: can you detect virtual vs physical calculator in a program? - dmh - 03-05-2024 04:44 AM
Perfect - it works :-)
Thank you!
(03-05-2024 04:02 AM)Joe Horn Wrote: Try the command VERSION(2). It returns the hardware version ("A", "C", or "D") on physical calculators. It might return "Emu" on your virtual machine.