17 Jun
2010
17 Jun
'10
9:59 a.m.
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Philipp Überbacher wrote:
Pardon, you added old DOS machine ... no no, a 80286 + digital research
DOS isn't able to do this kind of real-time too. I bet there are pics,
DSPs or any other micro chips involved.
Regarding to MIDI, I will repair my ATARI ST, but I still belief that
Linux is the right way for the future.
Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of
2010-06-17 01:32:00 +0200:
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 ;). On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher
wrote:
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.
Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of
2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200:
[...]
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
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75. I think it should not be doing that...
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