On 02/02/2020 02:34 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 02 February 2020 14:14:16 Rafael Skodlar wrote:
EMC (Enhanced Machine Control) seems to have fizzled out.
No it hasn't, but the other emc objected to the name so it was changed to
LinuxCNC, several years ago, and it sure as hell hasn't died.
OK, for those who don't know, the original EMC (Enhanced
Machine Control) was written
by NIST (National Institutes of Standards and Technology)
and provided to the first outside
users in about 1996. It had stagnated due to some
limitations in scope (much having to
do with things like lathe threading). John Kasunich spent
over a year hacking some major
entanglements apart and inserting HAL between major
components of EMC to create EMC2
in about 2005. This made such things as lathe threading,
rigid tapping, inventive homing
sequences, tool changers, etc. much more flexible.
The EMC(squared) corporation threatened to sue over anything
that used "EMC" in it,
and so the name had to be changed. LinuxCNC is totally the
continued development
of EMC2, just under a different name.
Jon
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