I put together a computer specifically for a Flow Waterjet running the
Flow software late last year. I needed to set it up for a dual boot
windows 7 32 bit and windows 7 64 bit, and I found that many/most of
the newer motherboards will not support a 32 bit Windows OS at all.
I ended up buying an older, new motherboard that was available on Amazon.
Besides the cost of the OS, there are some other good reasons to move
away from Windows.
Dave
On 11/2/2017 8:42 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote:
I do a lot of upgrades to Chinese routers from their controller to
Mach3. I have been using an Atom type mother board for the last five
years together with a detuned Windows XP installation. It is always a
parallel port driver installation.
I am finding it more and more difficult to get motherboards that will
support XP and today my supplier warned me that the motherboards of
the future will not install XP at all.
The reason that I install Mach3 with a parallel breakout is purely
because it is so easy to do and my customers do not need to learn linux.
Now I am thinking that the time has maybe come to do a Mach
replacement controller that will be just as easy but running linuxcnc.
If I use Gmoccapy for instance and add a page or two that can edit a
configuration similar to what one does in Mach, then there might be
less resistance to using linuxcnc.
So I would imagine that there will be a matrix of pins and signals
that could be configured from within the gui and a standard INI file
with parameters for calibration of motor parameters and others.
Will it be possible to reload or restart linuxcnc from inside the gui
and more so, what do the gurus think of such and idea? Is it at all
feasible?
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Regards / Groete
Marius D. Liebenberg
+27 82 698 3251
+27 12 743 6064
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