Re: windows or dos based NC software

I think my original question has been answered "dos or win?" in my
office I use win 2000 server, win2000 pro, dos for my fax server,
dos on my vmail,win95 call accounting, and some win98 machines. My
dos machines run lightning fast only running 1 app. My win2k pro is
my daily driver-runs great even with all the software I try on it.
How do we optimise for cnc, what background services should be
stopped, what other apps should we run to keep the cnc prog from
loosing resources. I assume we will need some decent processor power
750mhz or better.


--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Ray Henry <rehenry@u...>
wrote:

>
> Jerry
>
> I think that the key in your excellent post is the notion

of, "some

> 'intelligent' peripheral boards." These thing, although rather

expensive

> compared to the cost of a PC these days, can rather easily get

around the

> latency or non-deterministic nature of signals from the PC. Most
> commercial CNC systems load part of the motion control into

peripherals.

>
> Ray
>
> >    From: "Carol & Jerry Jankura" <jerry.jankura@s...>
> > Subject: RE: windows or dos based NC software
> >
> > Hi Terry:
> > > Why not keep it on list and bang your drum to your hearts

content, it

> > > is very on topic. I would like to know "The Truth" as well

rather

> > > than reading that it is possible and be given no details.
> >
> > As Mulder often said, "The Truth is out there!.
> >
> > To answer your question - I built some Win 95 'real time'

controls a

> > few years back using Borland's Delphi along with

some 'intelligent'

> > peripheral boards - a DSP based frame grabber and a Compumotor

three

> > axis stepper/servo driver. The frame grabber (actuall, there were

two

> > of them) ran blob analysis software to analyze an image and

reported

> > locations to the PC. The PC ran the algorithm and calculated the

number

> > of steps the motors should turn. The motor controllers took those

step

> > commands and generated the acceleration profile to move the

motors.

> >
> > It worked like a charm. This was about six years ago.
> >
> > -- Jerry