Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] mach 3 software source

jeremy youngs wrote:

> gary do you have any experience with mach support? have you any experience
> with lcnc support? just asking
>

I've been an EMC(xx) user since 1998, and have had great luck with it.
Back in the
beginning, you needed a TRUE guru, like the creators of the program at NIST,
to get it running. Since then, it has gotten easier in steps, and is
now VERY easy
to install, and runs on most hardware. There have been problems with
certain
graphics cards and some other areas. Microsoft has 50,000 employees just
dealing with making Windows run on the widest array of hardware, and so
Linux will always lag a little behind on that score. We do have a list
of trusted
hardware and what realtime latency you can expect. Laptops are bad
for LinuxCNC as well as Mach. I generally use Dell Optiplex desktop
machines sold on eBay, for less than $100 including delivery. Lately
we have been recommending the Intel Atom boards, such as the
D525MW. You can build a new system for under $200 including
the computer box, but if you scrounge for some of the parts
(no box, used power supply, etc.) you can probably set one up
for just over $100.

For reference, there was no lawsuit involved in the name change from
EMC2 to linuxCNC, just the threat of a lawsuit by a big, multinational
computer security corporation.

Jon