MACH3 apparently won't run on 64bit machines without a parallel port.
MACH4
was supposed to be the successor and support more of the 64bit machines and
external stepper engines. Not only that they have a licensing method that
is tied to the hardware and more expensive for commercial systems.
In the Tormach case the LinuxCNC variant is probably tied to the motor
hardware so replacing the PC and installing Path Pilot can be done without
a
"Call Home" sequence.
AS always. Follow the money.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Dobbins [mailto:tu...@hotmail.com]
Sent: October-12-17 9:03 AM
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit on the BeagleBone Black
It was in response to comparisons being made to commercial software such
as
Apple, Microsoft, Google and Tormach. Money is not required to make
progress, it sometimes makes it faster, though.
The work that is going on right now to make Path Pilot run on any machine
that
can run Linuxcnc makes me think of those people who make "hackintoshes".
Apple's operating system is priced low compared to Microsoft's (and
arguably
works better), but it is designed to work with Apple's hardware and if
someone
wants to put it on a system that isn't Apple they have to think of work
arounds
to persuade the software that it is running on Apple hardware.
My guess is that Path pilot is probably easier to use than Mach 3 or Mach
4 and
easier for Tormach to support which is why they made the decision to
move
away from their previous software offerings. I don't know the facts, but
I
would bet that money made Path Pilot happen (relatively quickly) for
Tormach.
Rather than run up against possible licensing issues, it would be nice to
see a
reverse engineer of Path Pilot possibly with changes to make it even
better, that
comes as another choice of user interfaces to add to those already
available.
Martin
________________________________
On 11 October 2017 at 22:30, Martin Dobbins <tu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
What it needs is money, unfortunately.
Why do you say that? We have got this far without any money.
--
atp
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designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and
lunatics."
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