> And why should anyone of us use TurboCNC anyway, if LinuxCNC > provides > more features and better performance?
that was my question. is such claim true? it is a bit like speaking english and wondering if any other language is as effective for a particular purpose. of course the answer is that english is the best language. as for oldschool concepts: how many of us eat food using our hands? i dont use a food wizard to eat. my hands turn out to be practical. if i couldnt eat anymore because my hands were obsolete and only iforks could move food to my mouth, i would die of starvation, or upgrade the hardware. if there was a third choice.. > if particular PC is going to be dedicated only to machine > control thus > it is built in machine case, probably equipped with > touchscreen and > lots of hardware buttons, MPGs and other stuff, but have no > keyboard > or mouse keyboard = hardware buttons. mouse = mpg + more hardware buttons. touch screen = more hardware buttons + more mpg. machine case = machine case. the point is that inside the machine case is adequate processing capacity for moving a knife in three dimensional space, but the software to control the movement is not compatible with most of the existing hardware. that limitation is mediated by the os choice, and the os choice is directed by external tendencies to preserve entertainment functions. who cares? --- On Wed, 3/7/12, Viesturs Lācis <viesturs.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Viesturs Lācis <viesturs.la...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] EMC2/Ubuntu updates - safe to install? > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 8:34 AM > 2012/3/7 charles green <xxzzb...@yahoo.com>: > > hmm. has anyone else tried turbo cnc? > > > > I guess that this is not the right place to ask this > question - we are > LinuxCNC users here :)) > And why should anyone of us use TurboCNC anyway, if LinuxCNC > provides > more features and better performance? > > With regards of modern PCs to have way more capacity than a > CNC > controller software requires, I seriously doubt that You > will find a > freshly manufactured PC, which has the capacity to run DOS > and nothing > much more. Not only smartphones, but also usual cell phones > have more > calculating power than required for DOS. > > As other members mentioned, it is the freedom of the user to > decide, > if particular PC is going to be dedicated only to machine > control thus > it is built in machine case, probably equipped with > touchscreen and > lots of hardware buttons, MPGs and other stuff, but have no > keyboard > or mouse (thus making it difficult to use the PC for any > other common > tasks like web surfing) or have just a keyboard and mouse > attached to > it, so that it is versatile and easy to use PC, but not the > most > convinient setup to control a CNC machine, as I do not know > a way of > adding keyboard hotkey for particular, frequently-used > feature. > > You decide, what Your machine is going to be. And PCs > getting more and > more powerful is a fact and I find it better to try to get > an > advantage out of it rather than grumbling and trying to keep > living > with some oldschool concepts. > Please, do not get me wrong, but I really do not see Your > point. > > Viesturs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
