Re: Interface. Gauging interest.

>In CCED, "Jack Hudler" <yahoo@...> wrote:
>2) Hear! Hear! This is what freaks me out about using the parallel
>port; I would not want my Domain Server backing up my CNC machines

to >wreck my machine.

To which I would say:

What on Earth! is your CNC machine doing running when something like
this is even remotely possible to be happening!?!?

The "problem" with using a PC as an embedded controller, is that
folks forget that's what they've done. Then they expect to still do
all the things they've done before...
You've exchanged an inexpensive rather large box for the more
expensive small box that may be a G100.
Treat the large box embedded controller the same as you would the
small box embedded controller.

IMO THAT'S the REAL problem. Not any failing of a p-port, but rather
a failure in the judgement of the person using it...

A pc behaving as a machine controller needs the same respect you'd
give an embedded controller like the G100. You're not going to
expect it to do ANYTHING besides what it was designed and installed
to do. When you treat it--and a pc par port--that way, it/they are
reliable, repeatable, and IME without incident.

Don't do that, and the fault is with you, not the hardware.

Ballendo