Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC2 requirements.

John Dammeyer wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I was house cleaning a bunch of older PCs I had lying around. Hooked up one that booted BDI EMC 2.12. That was way back in my "Let's play with CNC on a break out box" days. It's a Pentium 133, 8GB hard drive, 77MB RAM ISA and PCI bus.
>
> Does anyone know if this is too small for EMC2 for just playing around. I have a Smooth Stepper for MACH3 for the main CNC system but does EMC2 require that much more resources?

I see Stephens reply, but rather than following that thread I think a
different point needs to be made.
LINUX will run fine on that machine - at least the LINUX that follows the same
format as DOS and is not weighed down with tons of useless crap. ( Now that
DOES make a good boat anchor ;) )
Many people are still running the Taig's on MPS2000 and MPS2003 which fits on
a floppy disk and just needs a tidy version of DOS to run. While the list of
supported Gcode tags is not large it does the job perfectly - day in and day out.
Co-processors such as Smooth Stepper are little more than control computers
which the smaller PC's that we all have sitting on the shelf could just as
easily handle. So perhaps there is a place for a 'cut down' version of EMC2
that can run on a core only version of Linux? This would work as a machine
controller which is FED information from other machines ...

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