Re: 486 & EMC or CNCPro

Hi Peter,

I had a 400 Mhz Pentium machine with Windoz98 on it, in several
partitions (6 Gb drive). I was able (with list help) to install BDI
over it, "taking over" one of my unused partitions, and letting BDI
reformat it for Red Hat. In the boot up, you press TAB (quickly), and
you can select DOS or Linux. Ray, Ian, and others provided quite a bit
of help on the list, you might check back a week or two for past posts.

Alan KM6VV


cadcamcenter@... wrote:

>
> > cadcamcenter@y... wrote:
> > > I will be taking possession of a 486 and wondering if it may be
> > > suitable for installing EMC. Or is installing both EMC and CNCPro
> > > asking too much?
>
> > Jon Elson <elson@p...> wrote:
> > section is different. A 486 can be made to work, but it is not a
> very good choice. It will be totally unacceptable for software-
> generated step pulses. It seems a 266 MHz pentium is the absolute
> minimum there.
>
> Thanks Jon. Just for the experience, I think I'll try to load Paul's
> BDI on the 486 and see what happens. But I'll probably use the 486
> exclusively for DOS based software after that.
>
> The 486 already has Win95 loaded. Sorry. Hadn't been following the
> discussions about EMC and BDI too closely, but do I need to unload
> Win95 first?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Peter