On Saturday 22 November 2008 21:57:32 Roland Jollivet wrote: > Hi > > OK, sorry I posted that. I saw pretty pictures and did'nt read the specs. > And I most often cringe when I see reply to my posts!!! > > But, (here we go a gain;-) , I think there's a main philosophy difference > with the guys who want an embedded controller. On the one hand, it's like > the EMC crowd is primarily a Linux group, and the CNC part is integrated > into their PC. As such, ever faster hardware is advocated (I concede, not > needed) for EMC. The other group are building a CNC machine and need a > controller, and may not be Linux users. > As for two machines, well, most people already have one. They're using it > right now, to post. > > The CNC part is a seperate part; what they're building. I for one, battle > with the advocation(latency) "While the test is running, you should "abuse" > the computer. Move windows around on the screen. Surf the web. Copy some > large files..." > I think to myself, but hey, this is my machine controller, I'd want to > remove all that stuff for better speed. If I want to surf the net, I'll go > sit in the office(or home) > > A converse scenario is to imagine a machine operator standing at the console > in front of his Haas, and he's busy googling global warming.
I don't see the problem. Often I'd _like_ to google for stuff while programming on a CNC machine. With EMC I _can_ do that. I see this as a great advantage. -- Greetings Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
