On Thursday 17 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Btw. when
'we' some old dino computer freaks controlled stepper motors
by DOS machines, we just controlled remoted pics (oldish micro
controllers - but not very old -, I guess you would use DSPs or other
micro controllers today, but would you use your MacOS, Windows, Linux
instead of external chips for fast and exact real-time control?).
Regarding to the age, I should have read who is the sender of the email
before I replied ;D.
That, other than I have lived long enough to have been there and done that,
hasn't a lot to do with it. I have spent 75 years refusing to grow _up_. :)
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