On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 11:58 -0500, Dave wrote: > I'm not understanding the "overcapacity problem"?? If your car can go > 80 mph, do you trade it in and get a crappier one that can only go 70? > > There is a reason why old Windows 95/98 PCs are dirt cheap. > > I threw out a bunch of Windows 98 PCs. I got an entire pallet of them > from one of my clients. I salvaged a few parts off of some of them, but > 90% of the pallet went into the trash. > > >>turbo cnc? > > > Your question would be better answered on the DIY-CNC forum on Yahoo. > There are a lot of users of other PC based CNC controllers on there but > most of them are LinuxCNC and Mach3. > > Hardware is so cheap these days that I think that buying stuff over 2-3 > years old is of questionable value. > > The people on this list are somewhat jaded when it comes to preferable > PC based CNC controls. ;-) > > Dave
Recently, I had a shortage of PC's around here and wanted to get a LinuxCNC to work on whatever I could scrape together. I needed a LinuxCNC PC to experiment with but it wasn't important enough to spend any money on. In dusting off my retired PC's, it became clear that the current Ubuntu or LinuxCNC won't run on less than 256MB of RAM and really 512MB is the practical limit. At the time I retired my leftover PC's, 256MB ran just fine with Windows 2K (before I knew better), or EMC2 6, so there should still be a way of using this older hardware, it's just a matter of working out the details. For situations were one needs to make do, these resource challenged PC's can be handy and should not be written off. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
