I am surprised how long the LPT port has lasted. Many of the new Intel Bay Trail boards either have LPT ports or a header on the motherboard. Apparently the LPT port must be used by a lot of embedded systems. Otherwise why would they continue to include that?
It seems like the PCI slot is endangered. Some of the newer boards are slotless. The cost of a spare motherboard seems slight to me considering the overall cost to implement a CNC system. IMO, if uptime is critical, put spare parts on the shelf and that solves the future availability issue for the most part. Dave On 6/29/2014 3:18 PM, Jeff Epler wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 07:59:36PM +0200, Marius Liebenberg wrote: >> Thanks a lot Jeff. I also have a better picture of the kernel issues and >> requirements. >> Would it be correct to say that the future of motion control would be >> hardware step generation rather than the software step generation? It >> would seem that the world of parports and software step generation is >> shrinking fast with the rapid change in PC hardware. > The SPP/EPP parport is clearly not something that is on everybody's PC > anymore. They'll be available as cards for a long time, though who > knows when they'll cross the cost curve and be just as expensive as a > basic FPGA motion control card... > > Personally I wouldn't recommend to anybody to put together a new system > based on the parallel port. Saving the money on the card is likely to > be a false economy for most people in the long run. > > Jeff > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse > Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition > Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows > Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
