Re: [Emc-users] Outboard step generators rant (was Re: Guidance on usb comp)

2011-02-24 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:30:34PM -0500, Colin K wrote: > > Good thing we can still buy brand new, cheap motherboards with an even > better real-time port on them :) Everyone says the parallel port is legacy > and could disappear any day, but when they still put them on dirt-cheap > boards like t

[Emc-users] Outboard step generators rant (was Re: Guidance on usb comp)

2011-02-24 Thread Colin K
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > Windows is not built to support real time. Although rather ironically the > original kernel was. It is pretty difficult to timeshare a machine between > real time tasks and supporting a GUI with real-time response. One or the > othe