Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Re: Smart box / Dumb box

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From: <ballendo@...>

> Doug wrote:
> >I purchased a Galil DMC-1000 thinking that anything so smart could
> >make up for my stupidity. It turned out to be so darn smart that it
> >refused to see my point of view.


and Ballendo wrote:
> LOL!
>
> no kidding. This IS the down side to the smart box!

There was a time when all a computer did was process instructions. Remember
the Z80? Stone reliable.

Then came a smarter and more capable chip - the 8088. Over the years we
taught it to think for itself and gave it new names. The result? Today's
computers only accept requests, and then only after careful consideration
and weighing the merits of such requests. Is it any wonder that the Rabbit
chip (based on the Z80 instruction set) is becoming popular?

Fact is, I'm in the smart box camp as long as it's a smart soldier and not
an absent-minded professor. I am confident thus far.

Doug