Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Black box heaven or the real BDI

Hi Fred

Leaving aside any patent claims by FMSLabs (my views are well known on this
subject), this is quite a feasible proposition. A small processor board as
used by several EPOS suppliers would have all the necessary ports on board.
How about a small board about the same size as a 5 1/4 drive with all the
parallel, NIC, and serial ports ?
Oh, and EMC running from a flash ROM (Video onboard just in case)...

With one or two minor reservations, I would say that your "need" could be
filled by EMC - And as a bonus, a GPL realtime linux free from any dubious
patent claims thrown in.

The hardware could be no more than a small PC with 32M RAM, 1Gig HD, with a
233Mhz processor - I have this boxed up and ready to bring with me to NAMES :)

Regards, Paul.

On Saturday 26 January 2002 9:03 pm, imserv1 wrote:

> I'd like a black box that has EMC running on RTlinux. I just don't
> want to SEE it. I want to SEE Windows.
>
> My ideal configuration would have EMC on a PC without a monitor or
> keyboard(maybe a pendant). It would have step and direction output
> from the parallel port, and possibly encoder feedback. It would also
> have a network connection to my PC running any flavor of 32 bit
> Windows I choose(maybe MAC even).

> If I wanted to set this up what would be the required components
> hardware wise, and how about software. Is this setup a violation of
> the RT-linux patent license? Is any media sale of this kind of setup
> prohibited? (Paul bring me one at NAMES. ;-), you really could pay
> for your trip.)
>
> What is the minimum hardware required to run EMC. A board that puts
> out Step & Direction or can it run the parallel port direct, with
> encoder feedback? How much is it? Can EMC put out Step & Direction
> to the parallel port like MS-DOS?