Returns a string identifying the host platform.
None.
name—String identifying the host platform.
Table 8-1: Host Platform Identifiers lists the host platforms.
None.
GETPLATFORM returns a five character string designation of the host platform, where the first three characters are an alphabetic abbreviation of the name and where the last two characters are 32 or 64 and designate the word size. Using GETPLATFORM to determine the host platform is more convenient than using the system variable
!Version, since different combinations of the members of this structure must be used on different platforms.