John Kasunich wrote: > PS: to Michael and others involved in this stuff: I am very > happy to see you guys moving things to the next level. I > wish I could take a bigger role, but my life has gotten rather > busy and I haven't done any real work on LinuxCNC in years. > But I really appreciate what you guys are doing! > Families do have that effect! Don't feel any need to apologize! As I had hoped during some rough meetings around 2002 or 2003, HAL "broke the ice" that had frozen EMC into a state of very limited progress. Perhaps all the recent developments and extensions don't ALL derive from HAL, but I think a lot of them do, and I want to thank you for creating a great framework for a lot of people to create useful stuff within. I know the PPMC driver that you roughed out went WAY beyond what I ever envisioned in terms of flexibility and automatically sensing the available functions.
I'm sort of nuts about rigid tapping, and that probably would never have happened without HAL. I agree that development might have started to level off when Michael Haberler and others started plunging into yet other areas, and this is great, and I hope they make great progress on these, too. A few times the issue of lookahead has come up, and some torture tests I did have shown that high speed path following could be a problem for people doing profile milling. I hope Michael or somebody else finds a way to improve this. Also, the work on other RT kernels and other hardware platforms is very exciting, as until the Atom came out, there were some indications X86 support of low-latency RT might be going away. And, a relatively inexpensive board with good RT performance would be a good thing to have available. So, thanks also to all the guys who are working on all these areas of improvement! Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
