On 2014-06-30 05:06, Dave Cole wrote: > 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 also depends on what board you buy. I have found that the industrial mother boards all tend to have a lpt port. I use the Atom boards, both ITX and industrial and if you select the correct one from the long list on offer, you will have an LPT port and mostly an PCI slot. This is not the case with all the higher end popular mother boards though.
> 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 > -- Regards /Groete Marius D. Liebenberg +27 82 698 3251 +27 12 743 6064 QQ 1767394877 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
