Mario. wrote: >End of an EMC era? >I hope you only mean end of EMC 1, right? >The king is dead, long live the new king EMC2 ! > > > Right! And, I'm king of the "if it ain't broke, don't FIX it!" guys. If I get something working, with clip leads and wire nuts all over it, cables suspended in mid-air by bits of string, panels held on with bent wires, etc. but it WORKS, it may well stay that way for 7 (or more) years. It was really quite PRE-EMC1, essentially unpublished software released to interested 3rd parties by NIST. If that system hadn't acted very funny a few weeks ago, this wouldn't have happened, either. I had a heat sink to make last week, and almost started the conversion first, but didn't want to break things enough that I then got in a scramble to get it working again. I didn't know if the weird problem was going to crop up in the middle of that last job, but it did not.
This wasn't just a simple software conversion, though. I had to replace the computer, as the old one was too slow and didn't have enough memory to handle the new OS. The new computer didn't have any ISA slots, so I couldn't use the Servo-to-Go card. (I needed to be using my own motion control boards, anyway.) And, the aux I/O is part of my PPMC board set, so I had to rewire that stuff, too. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
