On 10/9/2012 9:02 AM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: >> Why are some people so hung up on the idea that one box (even a box full >> >of micros) must be used as the machine control? > That is what EMC was conceived as. The whole underlying idea was to > use cheap, off the shelf, PC hardware for machine control, rather than > use expensive dedicated hardware. >
Might have been more true in 199? when EMC was started, not so true today. Micros are almost giveaway items now. >> >With low cost motion devices like smoothstepper, pokeys, > A Smoothstepper is considerably more expensive than a cheap PC, and > can only do one thing. > As far as I know a Pokeys isn't a real-time motion control device at > all, but a USB HID device? Pokeys now has a motion control option- it will be shipping for Mach4. ron ginger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
