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On Thursday 17 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

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>Philipp Überbacher wrote:

>> Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 01:32:00 +0200:

>>> On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote:

>>>> Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200:

>>>

>>> [...]

>>>

>>>> I fear something named simply 'emc' isn't easy to find around the net.

>>>

>>> Try

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>     --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say

>>

>> Thanks, I found it eventually (I'm really bad at using search engines).

>> Quite interesting, it uses a RTAI patched kernel. I also read this has a

>> module to disable SMIs, which is kind of hard to believe..

>>

>> At my school we transfered the CAD files per floppy to a DOS box that

>> controlled the CNC machine, guess that's for the same reason, bad rt

>> capabilities of newer OSes and machines.

>

>Never ever! I bet the DOS machine 'controls' micro controllers used by

>the CNC machine. Imagine a conical object where you wish to engrave a

>word in a reasonable time. Have fun using my computer + a Linux kernel

>rt (or any windows rt) to do this ;).

Chuckle.  We have SW that can take your name, wrap it around a beer can

sized object, and once the code is correct, carve your name on that cylinder

in maybe a minute.  That would take a machine setup with 4 axis control,

which mine is.  And all 4 axis motors are controlled by step and direction

controls over a single parport.  Using xylotex motor drivers.
--

Cheers, Gene

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