Authors include Dan Falk, Ray Henry, John Sheahan, Don McLane, Will Shackleford,Tim Goldstein, Fred Proctor, Jon Elson and Henkka Palonen.

This is the initial draft of the EMC Handbook generated with LYX. Most of this document has been copied from the HTML version of the EMC Handbook found at www.linuxcnc.org/handbook
Several chapters need to be updated to take into account recent versions of Linux and alternative realtime patches.- See the Notes in the chapter entitled "Road Map"