On 8/1/2012 8:22 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > #2 I have no plans to use this headless in our application, so I haven't > tried it and don't plan to.
Fair enough, Todd. It's your application that matters. Still, the data point is a useful one for others in their planning. It helps sort out where the sources of latency lie. Even a self-contained CNC controller could have two motherboards inside, one to handle the LinuxCNC functions and one to handle the GUI and keyboard/mouse functions. I tried this years ago with some VIA boards that passed through my hands. In that case, though, my plan was to mount one board on the back of the monitor---an arrangement which has since become commonplace as the form factors of the boards continue to diminish---in order to create a diskless workstation dedicated to being an X-terminal. For a brief time in the 1990s, such devices were all the rage in the Unix world. I didn't like the EMC2 performance of the particular VIA board I had and put the plan aside but it's coming back to me as I read about the new problems with uncooperative graphics processors on Intel motherboards. One can build and optimize an Xterminal once and use it for many years. That's the value of established protocols like X11 (warts and all!). Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
