Gregg Eshelman wrote: > 750 Mhz Slot A Athlon <http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon 750 - > AMD-K7750MTR52B A.html> > AOpen AK72 motherboard http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/aopen/ak72.htm > 768 meg PC133 SDRAM and a nVidia 5200 AGP card with 128 meg > > Is that good enough to run LinuxCNC for a small 2 axis gantry? > > I ran a 700 on a two axis setup with 8.04 and EMC2.3.4 and it took forever it seemed to bring up Gedit and screen updates were very slow.
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