Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: DeskNC Windows version

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From: Larry Edington <ledington@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: DeskNC Windows version


> I have 4 of the SIIG boards too. But when there are no more parallel port
> printers being made, then the parallel ports will start to become extinct.
> SIIG won't sell enough of them to continue making them and they will go
> away. There just isn't enough parallel port useage in industrial control
to
> make the parallel port stay around. The parallal port's life revolves
around
> printers.
>
> For example. Try to find an MFM hard drive controller today. How about an
> ESDI controller? Or one more near and dear to my heart, an EISA bus
> computer? How about a dot matrix printer?
>
> All of these were killed by newer and better technology. I lived though
the
> introduction and demise of EISA in a 9 year time frame. When I started
> working at Compaq, EISA didn't exist. When I left 9 years later, it didn't
> really exist any longer. I have a $5000 Truevision video compression board
> that I can't use today because no modern processor system boards support
> EISA. I paid for that board out of my own pocket. That smarts!
>
> I can't predict when it'll happen, but I do know the OS companies want to
> get away from legacy support as soon as possible.
>
> And besides, if you really think about it, we need a better interface to a
> CNC machine than the kluged up parallel port anyway. It's too limited for
> what we really want to do.
>
> later,
> Larry E.