excess capacity is great if you are into excess capacity. i junked at least three pc boxes before i found something that could support all that capacity. my intention was to control three or four stepper motors, and shuffle a few simple text files in and out of the controller. at first, i thought it would be simple: just get a cray, or a watson, or a deep blue - they can handle it. then i started pricing them, and they turned out to be waaaay out of my price range. although a laser printer or a plotter is a 2.5 axis type device that i had seen producing nice results, i never really looked for any eight bit machines, because they have trouble with the gig or three of ram for enhanced machine capacity requirements.
--- On Tue, 3/6/12, Mark Wendt <mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil> wrote: > From: Mark Wendt <mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] EMC2/Ubuntu updates - safe to install? > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 4:34 AM > On 03/06/2012 07:13 AM, charles green > wrote: > > another argument if favor of the dedicated operation of > machine controller pc's. > > > I've been allowing updates for the last five years and have > yet to have > any issues. I don't do kernel updates. I also > have additional software > loaded on my machine, to generate G Code from a database I > use that > holds my designs. I also have used the networking side > of the machine > to search online for resolutions to problems I've had when > setting the > machine up, and other issues once it was running. > Without IRC on the > machine control PC, it would have been near impossible to > get a working > configuration for my machine, having to run out of the shop > to my home > machine, ask a question, wait for an answer, run back out > the shop, try > it, doesn't work, run back inside ask another question, ad > infinitum. > > If you want a dedicated controller, with nothing else on it, > that's an > option for you to use. For those of us who have, and > still use the > capabilities of the PC and the OS to further our goals in > the shop, > that's okay too. When you have excess capacity in a > machine, it's silly > not to use it. > > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft > developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, > CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you > subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
