On 5/18/2012 4:27 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2012/5/18 Jan de Kruyf<jan.de.kr...@gmail.com>: > >> In any case: from the grumbles in this thread we might perhaps deduct that >> there is money in a good micro stepping board, that takes position or speed >> input every msec or so; for the stepper people. >> > Yes, and the problem is that for serious stepper machines it is ok to > add another piece of hardware, but for total diy hobby machine, which > is built from "whatever there is in the corner of the room", adding > such a piece of hardware could be too much of an additional cost, > which could lead to some users switching to other cnc controllers that > can handle software step generation on existing PC hardware. > OTOH I guess that in situation, when there are no other paths to take, > taking this path (switching to rt_preempt with higher latencies) would > provide some progress instead of having no progress at all. > >
The existing Mach3 LPT port printer driver does not work on Windows 8 - according to it's author. But the LPT driver is being re-written for Mach4, so I am not sure if the new driver is Windows 8 compatible or not. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
