Re: Windows and black boxes

Chris,

If the hardware is designed around something like EMC's "canonical
functions" (The lowest common denominator set of cnc needs, one
exmple of which might be "move from here to there following a linear
path"), adding features to a GUI is possible and even easy.

Like so many other design issues, "the devil is in the details".

Hope this helps.

Ballendo

P.S. This stuff we're talking about is not new, or unusual. It is
simply currently more expensive than most on this list commmonly
think is "affordable". Take a look at some servo motion chipset and
motion card sites to get a feel for the "black box" in action. Try
cybernetics, PMD, Galil to start...

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., CL <datac@l...> wrote:
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>I suspect that even knowing this "Code", One would still be limited
>to whatever capability the electronics IN the black box are capable
>of. In other words you really could not Add Functions, just call
>them up in different ways.
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