Re: windows or dos based NC software

> > Not hassling anyone, or pointing fingers, just that the concept

it can't

> > be done in windows because it will just not work is incorrect.

I use win98 under VB to run some awfully tight timing routines at
work (must be acurate to a fraction of a mS, not that tight in
electronics terms but real tight for meat.) The one thing I have
seen is that VB likes to take over the entire processor and not let
things run in the background whether or not you want them to. For my
application I'm not terribly worried since the motion control chips
I'm talking to are actually sub processors. (HP (agilent) HCTL 1100,
National makes some similar LM628 or something like it)