Re: Re: What is Cad/ CAM, Controllers and... opinions: again?

Ron Ginger wrote:

>Windows and its companion DOS are simply NOT real time systems. RT
>Linux is only slightly closer to millisecond real time.

Ron,

WindowsRT? I agree.

DOSrt? DEFINITELY! Certainly MUCH better than milliseconds. I can
write code that EASILY attains 5 MICROsecond performance!

RTlinux? Will(the NIST programmer on the EMC project who deals with
the latency issues(how RT is RT?) recently posted that he CHOSE
RTlinux DUE TO ITS MICROSECOND capability. He started with windows,
and couldn't get the performance needed.

In reference to our PREVIOUS discussion h/w vs. s/w. They BOTH work.
And they BOTH have tradeoffs.

Ballendo

P.S. Looking forward to your conversational s/w. I agree that
conversational is not enough apparent in our lo-end CNC s/w.

AhHa! has had their command builder(conversational) since '92.
Shopbot s/w is set up in the interface to perform conversationally if
desired. In fact, we don't speak much about shopbot here, but there
are some nice features to their s/w. Machine is MUCH improved, as
well.