Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Indexer LPT

> So, Indexer. Probably very close to what everyone wants. It is
> DOS. It can be run on old Junk. It has no unknown propriety code or
> language

It *IS* proprietary code, which is precisely the problem some of us
were talking about - a user cannot modify it themselves to do
something straightforward and logical like use a common 24 bit IO chip
instead of multiple parallel ports.

Regardless of this, it may be usefull for many people, although I
would personally hesitate to invest time and money building a machine
or application program around something where I am dependent on a
single source for support and improvement - especially given the
alternatives that now exist.

If the interface it provides to higher level software is really good
and popular, it might be worth writing an open source workalike which
could be furhter improved by its users - but most of the people with
the necessary skills seem to be working on either EMC or their own at
least semi-proprietary windows package.

Chris Stratton

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