stephan wintner wrote: > > The difficulty is I do not have nor do I want a large box computer. I do > have an older g4 Powerbook. From what I have read, it is possible to get > Ubuntu running on a PowerPC mac. And hence presumable I can get EMC > running on it, right ? (I know, I can try that for free - and will) > Is there an RTAI version available for the Mac? > If so, then comes the next question - the Powerbook is laptop. No > parallel port. I can get a PCMCIA card which adds a parallel port. Will > that work with EMC ? (I cannot try this without spending money - lots of > it). Has anyone managed to run EMC over a PCMCIA card parallel port, > even on a intel machine ? > USB parallel ports definitely work by software emulation, and would not be expected to work. Some PC-card parallel ports set up a VERY accurate emulation of a standard ISA or PCI parallel port register assignment, so if you can figure out the correct I/O port address that the plug-n-play enumerator has assigned it to, it should work. (There may also be other PC-card ports that do not follow the standard register assignment, and so will be harder to make work.) > (A related question would be - can I get EMC running natively on OSX, > which is basically unix at heart. But that involves downloading source > etc - and is more involved than I wish to get for now. I do know that OS > X supports Python.) Don't forget the real-time patches to the OS!
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