Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC2 requirements.

I tried to install EMC2 on a 1.8 GHZ machine that had 256 Mb Ram (shared
video memory), where I cut down the video part to 32Mb, but still couldent
install it.. When I inserted 512 Mb Extra it worked perfectly.. so I think u
definately need some more ram.

But other than this, its just worth a try (-:

Best regards
Kim Mortensen


2008/8/25, Lester Caine <lester@...>:

>
> 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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