Hi Kent, Thanks for setting me straight on that.
On the question you raise further down, I think that this would represent a new branch. It would require significant changes to: motion control, interpreter, GUIs. Ken On 1/27/2012 4:14 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 1/27/2012 8:52 AM, Kenneth Lerman wrote: > >> <...> >> >> All of this stuff needs to be designed in; it can't be patched into the >> existing system. >> >> It's important to remember that the architecture and design of EMC is >> ancient in computer years. My guess is that it dates back to the early >> days of the X Windows system. That system was designed with the notion >> that every desk would have a computer with one megabyte of RAM, a one >> million instruction processor, and a one megapixel display. >> >> Today we have a thousand times as much processor and memory. We can keep >> the context associated with a million line gcode program in memory if we >> find that convenient. >> >> Regards, >> >> Ken >> > Ken: > > I agree that the EMC computing environment was smaller and less capable than > we have now but even then the developers were using substantial Unix work > stations by Sun and others for development. PCs got their nose under the tent > as they were becoming more powerful and a lot cheaper, Unix had been ported > (remember the AT&T Unix PC?), a real-time environment had become available, > the parallel port was inviting, etc. > > More likely "this stuff" as you call it wasn't designed in because it wasn't > part of the original project brief. The architecture, whatever one thinks of > it, probably was dictated mostly by the larger environment into which EMC fit > in the NIST research program. > > None of which says we shouldn't be thinking about where we want LinuxCNC to > go. > > At some point if these wide ranging discussions begin to solidify into > proposals, I think it will be necessary to decide if this represents a > technology refreshment or a new branch of LinuxCNC (the next-generation > next-generation controller?). > > Regards, > Kent > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
