Excuse this XP rant, but...... I have been wondering when this would be posted. Not only will Smartcam not run on XP, but any and ALL software that has modules like Smartcam's SMM, that run in a DOS box in the background. XP has NO DOS at all, guess what? This is when everybody buys a dedicated pc for Smartcam running Win2k, ME, 98 or 95, ugh. Not only Smartcam shells to DOS operations, I have quite a few other programs that will either live happily on a pre-XP machine or I buy all new software. Now you see why Microsoft did away with DOS, to sell more software. Yet another sticking point, you will also need a pc built within the past year because XP won't run on any older pc's. XP is not in my budget. I don't need it unless it is in an XP only environment. I figure that Smartcam will run for quite a few years just like it has for over 10 years. I still have not seen a better software anywhere. Smartcam forever, and maybe for whatever comes after that too. Michael
Bob Looney wrote: > > Unfortunately we will all be switching in a cpl years. I just installed RC2 > of winXP and SmartCAM is still hanging like it did in RC1. Can't put my > finger on it yet but sys process says it's still running and each click of > the mouse dims the group pallet panel, but nothing works. > Oh well, I might be able to milk a couple more years out of it using Win2k. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 8:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] smartcam replacment > > For the money, Gibbs will get you up and running fast. I see a var in > Atlanta > had a hard time with a horizontal, nothing to worry about, Gibbs does a nice > job with this. > Also the Process save function in gibbs will help you over the long run. > Training in Gibbs will be faster then MasterCAM and function will out do > fcam. > I have used all three over the past. I would suggest Gibbs over the other > two. > Don O > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================================== > > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================================== -- Michael Gailey Visit our CAD/CAM/CNC Programming and 3D modeling website http://www.microsystemsgeorgia.com/toc.htm mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
