Re: EMC on a MAC?
Posted by
Randolph Lee
on 1999-07-30 12:19:27 UTC
David I had an exchange of email with Fred Proctor that said:
I responded with info about the PPC use of the PCI bus and I think he
indicated that PCI Bus DAC/encoder boards might be a way around the
problem .(Fred, Perhaps you could jump in I seem to have misplaced
your response to me...)
Since the next years Rev of Intel mother boards will, I have heard,
be dropping the old ISA bus support I would not be amazed to see a
PC PCI DAC/encoder card that could be used in the Mac under Linux...
I just don't have the time right now to work on it but it look like
in the not too far future you could use a PPC box in the shop with
out too much of a problem...
Also PCI Parallel port cards are available for the Mac so perhaps
that might also work for I/O of EMC under LinuxPPC... (I left a msg
on the LinuxPPC web site asking about using those boards under
LinuxPPC1999 but I have not had a response yet)
Finally you could also use one of the Orange Micro "PC on a card"
(several models of them had an on board parallel port) they crop up
on places like Ebay quite cheaply from time to time... (saw the P133
version with 64 meg and the Parallel port go for $225 about a month
or so ago)
I sure hope we can keep those boring format wars off of this list...
Horses for courses Is my motto...
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>done under PPC.
> > Fred, I have the latest version of LinuxPPC1999 up and running (Rel
> > 5PPC glibc 2.1, the 2.2 kernel, and USB support)
> > http://www.linuxppc.com/updates/blue-g3-rev2.shtml
> >
> > What would it take to compile EMC for the Linux PPC versions? or is
> > it something that is just "Not possible"?
>
>It should be a simple recompile, except that the EMC code calls PC
>inb/outb instructions to talk to IO space and I don't know how this is
I responded with info about the PPC use of the PCI bus and I think he
indicated that PCI Bus DAC/encoder boards might be a way around the
problem .(Fred, Perhaps you could jump in I seem to have misplaced
your response to me...)
Since the next years Rev of Intel mother boards will, I have heard,
be dropping the old ISA bus support I would not be amazed to see a
PC PCI DAC/encoder card that could be used in the Mac under Linux...
I just don't have the time right now to work on it but it look like
in the not too far future you could use a PPC box in the shop with
out too much of a problem...
Also PCI Parallel port cards are available for the Mac so perhaps
that might also work for I/O of EMC under LinuxPPC... (I left a msg
on the LinuxPPC web site asking about using those boards under
LinuxPPC1999 but I have not had a response yet)
Finally you could also use one of the Orange Micro "PC on a card"
(several models of them had an on board parallel port) they crop up
on places like Ebay quite cheaply from time to time... (saw the P133
version with 64 meg and the Parallel port go for $225 about a month
or so ago)
I sure hope we can keep those boring format wars off of this list...
Horses for courses Is my motto...
>From: "David M. Munro" <Munro@...>Randolph Lee boss@...
>
> >From: "Dan Mauch" <dmauch@...>
> >
> >Get rid of that" toy "computer :)
>
>I'm fully aware that I'm not going to be pushing any machine tool tables
>with a Mac.
>
>But really, get a grip! Isn't DOS dead? Didn't GUI's kill it? Can I walk
>into a software site and buy DOS v. x.x.x?
>
>I'd be a lot more comfortable with LINUX, if I'm gonna learn a weird
>operating system I'd prefer that it be one that's the wave of the future.
>I've spent enough years of my life resurrecting technologies from the
>1820's, I'd just as soon not be an industrial archeologist of the 1970's.
>
>I'll do it, but I'm not gonna like it.
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Windshadow Engineering Nantucket Island, MA USA
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