On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 3:54 PM andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 22:18, Rafael Skodlar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > PCs were NEVER intended to be used for CNC yet some of you out there use > > it for that purpose. > > That is the _entire_ raison d'etre of LinuxCNC. > > The point of the EMC project was to do machine control on > off-the-shelf PC hardware rather than on specialist hardware. > > Maybe that no longer makes sense, if so then LinuxCNC no longer makes > sense. > Itcontinues to make perfet sense. nowmore than before. But what has changde is the off the shelf hardware. Today I can buy a Raspberry Pi or a PC and both can run the same Linux based software. But I can also buy an offthe shelf STM32F (ARMCortex-M) board for betweed $3 and $15 that can run a milling machine, or at least a 3D printer of wood router. Back when EMC was new the PC was the only, low cost off the shelf computer. But now there are many What's chaged is the variety of off the shelf hardware and the price of it. > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
