Organic Engines wrote: > Paul_c, > > Is a Troll. > > Go home Paul_c. > > You're taking up bandwidth and wasting peoples time. Well, there is a lot of history there. Paul Corner is the developer of the BDI, which was the first way for non Linux gurus to install EMC and get it running in less than 3 weeks (WITH help from the real gurus!) He integrated an RT-patched Linux install with EMC all on one CD. His contribution was an IMMENSE boost to EMC back around, maybe 2003. I have to say that his BDI enabled me to update and follow developments, which I had NOT been doing from 1998 through 2003, because it was TOO HARD! And, yes, I was the SECOND EMC user outside NIST.
Sometime around 2005-2006 Paul had a big disagreement with the rest of the developers over the direction of EMC development and has partially broken camp. He doesn't like HAL, for some reason which I've never understood, and his continuation of his own EMC version does not include HAL. I think HAL has been an immense positive development, and even though there is a clear cost (I can measure it on an oscilloscope, the servo update cycle does take longer) the flexibility gained has been well worth it in my opinion. I also hoped that HAL would enable threading to be done. I'm not sure that it is entirely BECAUSE of HAL that the threading problem was solved, but I think it opened up possibilites for easier development of that. There's more, but I'm not sure I want to air any more dirty laundry in public. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
