2012/3/7 charles green <xxzzb...@yahoo.com>: > hmm. has anyone else tried turbo cnc? >
I guess that this is not the right place to ask this question - we are LinuxCNC users here :)) And why should anyone of us use TurboCNC anyway, if LinuxCNC provides more features and better performance? With regards of modern PCs to have way more capacity than a CNC controller software requires, I seriously doubt that You will find a freshly manufactured PC, which has the capacity to run DOS and nothing much more. Not only smartphones, but also usual cell phones have more calculating power than required for DOS. As other members mentioned, it is the freedom of the user to decide, if particular PC is going to be dedicated only to machine control thus it is built in machine case, probably equipped with touchscreen and lots of hardware buttons, MPGs and other stuff, but have no keyboard or mouse (thus making it difficult to use the PC for any other common tasks like web surfing) or have just a keyboard and mouse attached to it, so that it is versatile and easy to use PC, but not the most convinient setup to control a CNC machine, as I do not know a way of adding keyboard hotkey for particular, frequently-used feature. You decide, what Your machine is going to be. And PCs getting more and more powerful is a fact and I find it better to try to get an advantage out of it rather than grumbling and trying to keep living with some oldschool concepts. Please, do not get me wrong, but I really do not see Your point. Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
