On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 21:10 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > 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. Before that part of it ran on a VME backplane; I don't remember what the processor was. :-( Dave > > (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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
