Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > Overall, you'd be better off just getting a Mesa card :) > Or, if you are not in a hurry, wait for the Beagle Board. Torsten is working on an RTAI port for it. I am hoping that the silence from him means he is hard at work, coding up the architecture-specific modules. The interface board I have just sent out for manufacturing will support not only my USC and UPC boards, but also the PPMC. If there's enough interest, I have thought about making a "super" I/O card with a lot more I/O points, and letting the user mount SSRs on another panel.
If we can get RTAI running on the Beagle, I think porting EMC over is not going to be such a big job. EMC already has the facility to run with the GUI and motion split on two computers. Getting the graphics-hungry Axis GUI off the motion controller should be a good thing, too. I don't know how this split arrangement deals with the location of the NGC files, but obviously they could be stored on another system with net file access (NFS or Samba). (I'm thinking that moving lots of large files around on the Beagle's SD card might eventually lead to wear-out.) I suppose you could attach a real hard drive to the USB port for the volatile files. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
