Hi, Ray: I’m running EMC V 8.x on a couple of Sony PCG-F430 notebook computers. These are 450 Mhz machines with 256 Mbytes of memory. Not particularly fast nor blessed with oodles of memory. I’ve a Sherline Mill and a Sherline Lathe. Currently, only the Mill runs CNC. I’m using Sherline’s motor mounts and their motors. The Motor Drive is a HobbyCNC “Pro” 4 axis unit; I’m only using three axes.
By EMC’s stated requirements, these machines don’t have enough memory to run EMC. By actual experience, they run Version 8 just fine. I’ve not been able to get Version 10 to run on anything. It seems that Linux starts up, but I get an error statement when I attempt to run EMC. Since V8 runs well, I’m not too worried about it. The nice thing is that, with the exception of the first machine that I bought new, these machines were from “buy it now” offerings on eBay and came quite cheap. I’m also running EMC on a Cybernet Elite-II. This is a “computer in a keyboard” machine with 1 gig of memory. I’m not sure how fast the processor is. As with the Sony notebooks, Version 8 runs well; Version 10 gives me the same error as it did on the Sonys, so I know that the error is not due to insufficient memory. All of these machines are set up to at least offer a dual boot - Linux or some version of Windows. In addition, since I play some with TurboCNC, the Windows selection also allows me to boot directly into unadulterated DOS with either Command or 4DOS as my command line interpreter. Hope that helps. Jerry Jankura So many toys…. So little time …. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
