turbo cnc? interesting. ..nice - $60 to register the shareware. but that is significantly less than the cost and tortuous hours of overcapacity investment. i do have a win 98 cd and a 486 box in the closet, but then i've already put in the ubuntu hours. maybe i should keep my eye out for a parport switch box. did you use turbo cnc? how, strictly in its function as a machine control, does it compare to linuxcnc?
--- On Wed, 3/7/12, 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: Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 6:13 AM > On 03/07/2012 09:01 AM, charles green > wrote: > > 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. > > > Excess capacity is available on any PC we use for > LinuxCNC. If you want > minimal capacity, you could always go back to DOS and > TurboCNC. Again, > your option. Others may differ, and most do. > > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
