[LAD] audio/midi app development

[Ralf Mardorf]

Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 01:32:00 +0200:
>   
>> On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
>>     
>>> Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200:
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>> [...]
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>>> I fear something named simply 'emc' isn't easy to find around the net.
>>>       
>> Try <http://www.linuxcnc.org/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-emc2-aj07-i386.iso>
>>
>> -- 
>> Cheers, Gene
>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>> 75. I think it should not be doing that...
>>
>>     --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say
>>     
>
> Thanks, I found it eventually (I'm really bad at using search engines).
> Quite interesting, it uses a RTAI patched kernel. I also read this has a
> module to disable SMIs, which is kind of hard to believe..
>
> At my school we transfered the CAD files per floppy to a DOS box that
> controlled the CNC machine, guess that's for the same reason, bad rt
> capabilities of newer OSes and machines.
>   

Never ever! I bet the DOS machine 'controls' micro controllers used by 
the CNC machine. Imagine a conical object where you wish to engrave a 
word in a reasonable time. Have fun using my computer + a Linux kernel 
rt (or any windows rt) to do this ;).