Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Pulse Rate/Processor Speed

In a message dated 9/18/2002 9:32:27 PM Central Standard Time,
jaredts@... writes:

> What operating system would allow me to get the most bang for my buck--dos
> or Linux

Jared: In MY opinion, GWBASIC running in DOS is just fine! (I write my own
"CNC code" in BASIC!)

I understand some kind of special "patch" is necessary to enable Windows to
OUT to the LPT-1. Don't know. Never even tried.

A stepper motor won't START without "ramping" faster than about 400
steps/second. Even a SLOW one- or two-megahz. clock-rate would enable this
rate, even in a FOR-NEXT loop in BASIC!



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