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

There are some SBC's that come with Linux installed, but they're a little pricey
compared to the usual ones. Also, as to the hard drives, you'd want to have the
drives set up for FAT32, as both *nix and MSDOG are supposed to be able to talk
to this format. I'd do that for _both_ ends of the link, just to insure that
there are no file reading/writing ambiguities.

Oh yeah, those SBC's come with networking built in. I'll try to get the URL for
you, but can't guarentee how soon that'll be.....:-)

Bill

On Sat Jan 26 17:05:30 2002, Brian Pitt, <bfp@...> wrote:

>Fred
>
>snips & comments mixed in
>
>> 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.
>>
>there are some window managers for X with a very win9x look&feel
>to them so you wouldnt be too lost from the start
>I personaly prefer KDE for usability but... OK.OK back to the question
>
>> 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).
>
>EMC can be set up to use a remote terminal (windoze box) for the user
>interface ,some details are at
>http://www.linuxcnc.org/handbook/part3/remoteg.html
>I havent done this (most people havent)
>there is also a windows version of Tcl/TK so you could start with
>one of the existing user interfaces from EMC
>
>the UI does not run as a realtime task so this should not cause
>any patent issues with RTL (? I think)
>
>> What is the minimum hardware required to run EMC.
>>
>I've heard P100+STG card and anything faster for steppers on
>the parallel port
>
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