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Re: Why EMC?

Posted by fast1994gto
on 2001-12-12 17:49:31 UTC
Here are my reasons for using EMC in approximate order:

1) It works better than any other DOS or Windoze non-hardware
assisted alternative I have tried, professional or hobby level. It
is very well engineered. It runs very smoothly, is tweakable and
extendable.

2) It uses a proper operating system in a real-time environment. No
random disk accesses, email programs or other oddities interrupting
milling operations.

3) It is open source. I can tweak it if and as need be and
contribute improvements back into the mindshare as the opportunity
arises. I can also benefit by adapting improvements made by people
other than the original authors.

4) It is free.

5) It runs on Linux. Closely related to #2 above.

6) Great support through the user community and from the developers.

Linux is not for everyone. I will leave it at that since the rest
really is another thread. If EMC were offered on Windows and worked
as well as it does there as it does on Linux, I would still use it.


Regards,

Barry

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Carol & Jerry Jankura"
<jerry.jankura@s...> wrote:
> Other than being free, what is it that draws so many folks on this
list to
> use EMC? I would have thought that, with so many G-Code
interpreters being
> available for DOS and even for Windows, that the necessity to change
> operating systems (and to learn a new OS) and then learn to "tune"
and use
> EMC would be more effort than many would want to expend with so many
> alternatives.
>
> Please don't take this question as either a flame or insinuation
that EMC
> and Linux are somehow "bad". I'm just interested in understanding
why this
> particular G-Code interpreter is so appealing.
>
> -- Jerry

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