Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] CNC Controller? was Re: Black box heaven or the real BDI

Not to start a flame war here and to stay on topic. That sounds very
complicated to me. Yes I am a long time user of everything dos 1.0 on up to
XP. But when it comes to CNC, i did the even more brain dead install. I
installed dos, with the network server and am running DeskNCRT remotely. I
couldn't ask and doubtfully can get any simpler than this. The OS is less
than 300K, the software runs as fast as your computer (since no other
threads are running), everyone remembers DOS and the network allows me to
work from my main CAD/CAM normal computer. To put out those flames what are
others using, lets just share some info and let all of the smart people make
there own choices.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian W. Wright" <Ian@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 3:07 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Black box heaven or the real BDI


> Hi Fred,
>
> Like a lot of others, you seem to be under the misapprehension that you
need
> to understand linux in depth to be able to use EMC - well you don't. If
you
> install the BDI on a clean machine you will probably look at the result
and
> think - hell, its gone and installed Windoze. The KDE desktop is as close
to
> windoze as makes no odds - OK, its got a big 'K' instead of a 'Start'
button
> but it does the same job ;o) and actually running the programs is just the
> same as in windoze. Granted, in the early days when this list first
started,
> running linux was more like fighting with DOS but the two OSs are now
> cosmetically so similar that you granny could easily do the swap (even my
> wife works both systems without batting an eyelid!!!)
> You would have to set up EMC to work with your particular machine but this
> is only a matter of changing a few values in a text file and you can then
> create an icon on the desktop for this particular app.
> If you want to run from a remote machine, the BDI comes with VNC - run the
> server on the EMC machine and the client on the windoze machine and you
can
> actually see the EMC screen on your windoze machine - create the g-code on
> the windoze machine, post it across the network using SAMBA (once set up
its
> transparent) and then fire up vnc to watch the linux box do its stuff.
> After fighting to set up win2k on two machines over the last few days,
> setting up the BDI is a breeze!
>
> Ian
> --
>
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield, UK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "imserv1" <imserv@...>
> > If I want to do this right now, I am barred because of my
> > unwillingness to learn Linux.
>
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