I don't think putting EMC2 in ROM would change much. The software can still be misconfigured. Probably a significant part of the $4,000 is for someone to provide support and make guarantees on performance and uptime, and probably purchase liability insurance for their company.
Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > Is this possible to put EMC2 on read only chip and use it? That thing > will prevent EMC2 to become corrupted and it will load much faster. > Also every time machine will start all previously safe data will be > lost am less saved on external drive! No accumulated errors will occur > ever! > Small manufacturers here in Oregon building CNC machine and I asked > him why he do not use EMC2 he said that some small OEM controller > (brand new) cost only $4 000, and it is stable and original software > on those controller will be never corrupted. So, question is where is > big incentive to use EMC2? One wrong move of machine that ran on EMC2 > will cost me between & 10 000-400 000!!! Todays parts are very > expensive. When I said machine wrong move I meant software got > corrupted machine stop or made wrong move etc. > I am sure that open source software for machine control must have > different requirement in compare to open source software for word > processing or video graphic. > > Because read only chip become very cheap it should not be a problem. > > Aram > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > -- Andy PGP Key ID: 0x67090A54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
