Re: Black Box Goals

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Jon Elson <elson@p...> wrote:
> michael.hutton@k... wrote:
>
> > From: Mike Hutton
> >
> > I would like to see a "busy" LED, so I see if it is CPU bound or
something.
> >
> > The ability to fit in a PC case sounds good to me. They are cheap.
>
> Oh, MAN! We are coming around full circle, here. Maybe what we
need
> is a program that boots off the floppy and runs on a stripped PC
> motherboard! Uses the parallel port for stepper drive, uses the
serial
> or network port to communicate with the "host" computer. It might
need
> a video card of some sort just so the BIOS doesn't scream.
> A PC motherboard IS an embedded computer, ie. single board computer.
> Even a 386 has more resources than most of the microcontrollers,
too.
>
> Jon