Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Anderson's Follies...

Actually any Pentium socket 7 chip above 100 Mhz will have the bruised
integer problem corrected.

That problem really messed with AutoCad 12 also.

Hugh

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Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Anderson's Follies...


> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, Jon Anderson <janders@n...> wrote:
> > I've posted here a number of times regarding my mysterious "lost
> step"
> > problem, and a lot of folks have taken time and offered advise
> trying to
> > help. Want to say thanks to everyone. I finally solved it I think
> (knock
> > on wood). It appears Ahha had some problem with the computer, an HP
> > Vectra P100. I moved the I/O card and files to a Digital 486/66,
> and
> > have been running a former problem program for half an hour with
> not a
> > trace of lost steps.
> >
> > Nice to make some progress finally...
> >
> Jon,
> You have obviously found the source of your problems. The P100 and
> P90's caused many problems with programs that are maths hungry.
> I once tried to run Bobcad 17 on a P90 not thinking. I had all sorts
> of problems. One of the better ones was a 28,000 line program then
> just kept going round the inside of the letter 'O' again, and again,
> and again..........
>
> Unless you can move up to a P300 minimum keep with a 486 DX2 66 or
> 100.
> The maths co-processors in those are really good.
>
> John Stevenson,
> Nottingham, England.