Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Dan's announcement

That is correct. It should be run under dos but you can load it from
windows. Of course you will have the effect of running it usder the windows
dos prompt so it would be better to simply boot it up in dos to eliminate
the joy of running windows. :)
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: jguenthe <jguenthe@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 7:22 AM
Subject: RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Dan's announcement

>From: "jguenthe" <jguenthe@...>
>
>So why not just run it under plain old dos 5 or 6 without windows?
>
>John Guenther
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: stratton@... [mailto:stratton@...]
>Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 10:18 AM
>To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Dan's announcement
>
>From: stratton@...
>
>> The software (emc dos real time) isn't quite ready. I have a copy

running

>> on a 486-66 but it is too slow. I need to put it on my 133mhz machine. By
>> slow I mean that I can only get it to run at 20 ipm on the 486-66.
>Features?
>> All the codes in emc plus 130 line look ahead. I hope to get some more
>time
>> today and run some of the other commands.
>> I check with the author and see what his timeline is.
>>
>> So far I have found that it will run under windows dos command
>
>It may run under the windows DOS command, but it won't do so with the
>real-time-determinism of versions running on either Linux or NT with
>an appropriately patched kernel.
>
>You might be able to get comparable behaviour with windows' 'reboot to
>DOS' mode and a TSR realtime scheduler.
>
>Chris