On 01/16/2014 05:39 PM, David Bagby wrote: > Let's take a bit little tip in the way back machine.... in > the olden days EMC (I use that name as that is what it was > called during the time I refer to) was not anywhere near > as much of a platform specific project as it is today. It > started out designed to be able to run a variety of > hdw+sftw platforms. It was only as time has passed by that > a particular hardware/software came to dominate EMC > installations: the X86 PC + Linux combination. Well, some time around 1995 it ran on Sun workstations. > (I know some will remember that EMC ran on Windows in the > early days and that this was not considered a bad thing.) No, I don't think this ever happened. Fred Proctor bought an expensive ($2000 per node) real time extension to Windows (I'd guess it was NT) and built something very close to our current latency test. It was HORRIBLE, and as far as I know, the project stopped right there. I think there were latencies of up to one SECOND several times a day. They tested Linux and an early RT-Linux patch and were pleasantly surprised.
There was a DEMO program that implemented the ancient keystick (or was it TkEMC) GUI with a little bit of stuff behind it, that ran on Windows. But, it was not even anywhere like the sim version of LinuxCNC, it had a dummied-out interpreter. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
