Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Indexer LPT and granularity

Hi Fitch:

That might be possible if Windows is running under Linux as a task, but
its cludgy enough that it would be better just to run Linux EMC alone if
thats the end objective.
EMC is an EXCELLENT package, but few people want to run linux anymore. (No
flames please, I know alot of people do, but believe me , for every person
willing to run linux, theres 10000 who don't want to). I am a unix person as
well, but as a programmer I prefer the power of the windows environment and
people who are not deeply involved in computing don't want to go linux for a
variety of reasons. If Windows was a realtime system EMC would already be
running on it and the linux version would die a slow death just due to the
amount of EMC upgrades that would happen in windows and not get ported back
to linux. In the end, if you can run EMC and you don't mind linux, then I
can't see why you'd use anything else.

IMO, Art
Master5 Software
http://users.andara.com/~fenerty/master.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fitch R. Williams" <frwillia@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Indexer LPT and granularity


> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 22:39:07 -0500, "Art Fenerty"
> <fenerty@...> wrote:
>
> >Its all a matter of how sympathetic the Windows OS is to being
> >manipulated in this way. In my experience its like pulling teeth, but I
can
> >see where its possible.
>
> OK, I gotta ask a question here. Forgive me if it is a dumb question
> born of ignorance, but I can't resist.
>
> Is the following possible:
>
> The controller package, like the one from NIST is running on the
> computer in Linux with all the real time benefits that bestows on it.
> On the same machine (say a 1.5GHz machine (or at least one powerful
> enough that computer capacity isn't an issue) is simultaneously running
> in windows the operator interface with all the nice graphics that makes
> available - the interface is of course running in a virtual machine
> created by a SW environment that allows running some form of windows on
> top of Linux.
>
> Can the operator interface running in the windows environment
> communicate with the NIST package running native Linux in a way that
> would make it possible to get the best of both worlds?
>
> It seems like sort of a clugy concept to me, but I couldn't resist
> asking the question.
>
> Probably better if the machine controller is a dedicated Linux machine
> on a network with the windows machines for file transfer.
>
> Fitch
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