RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] USB on Linux

Eric:

While I might agree with you about the industrial computers, every one I've
seen carries a hefty price tag because it is "industrially hardened"

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Eric Keller [mailto:keller137@...]
| Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 6:08 AM
| To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
| Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] USB on Linux
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| I would say that USB is soon to be in the dustbin of history, but I'm
| usually wrong about such things. The move away from legacy devices in the
| computer industry is a little silly. ISA is definitly going away, but
| industrial computers are just now starting to fully migrate to
| PCI, and ISA
| is still in full force. Parallel ports are pretty darn useful,
| don't think
| that they are going to be totally unavailable for a long time. I
| don't trust
| USB for real time operations.
| Eric
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| > I have noticed that the newer versoins of Redhat Linux supports
| USBs. Has
| anyone tried using the USBs as parallel ports for CNC as the
| older lpt ports
| are getting harder to find on the newer computers? I am in the process of
| building a CNC system and I am in the need of using several ports. I would
| like to thank you
| > in advance for any help that someone could provide in regards to this
| question.
| >
| > Gordon
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