Ron; I appreciate what you are saying, and, everyone should have a voice.
As someone fairly new to CNC, but not to computers in general, I'm really glad that: 1) LinuxCNC exists; 2) It has parallel port stepper control. It allowed me to start really easily, and, it works. Is it "optimal"? Nope. But, it has done everything that I have asked of it, without a missed step or crash (computer crash; "tool into material crash" not a Mach/LinuxCNC issue!) of my mill. Will I ever go for Mach 4 or Mach 3? I really don't see why. I'm CNC-ing an Emco Compact-8 lathe now, and expect that it will use LinuxCNC just fine. The stuff just works. The money saved on NOT having to purchase a Windows license, and a Mach license, and some of the hardware that seems to be required now for Mach, invested on taking my wife away on a little holiday, will pay dividends and whatnot that keeps my hobby going. Regards; John Alexander Stewart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
