Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EASY CNC

Doug Fortune wrote:

> jvicars@... wrote:
>
> > What does DNC stand for anyway?
> I think it might be 'Drip NC', where the NC code
> comes over a RS232 as fast as the machine can
> execute it, because the NC machine may have little
> or no RAM for program storage.

Distributed Numeric Control. This is from the days when real computers
cost $50,000 to $250,000 and up, and when NC machines may have had
no actual computer in them, or at least a very low-powered one. A central
computer held the part programs, and loaded them as needed. Not all
DNC systems used drip-feed, it depended on the internal memory of the
CNC system.

Jon