Re: Firewire/JK's post on compatibility

["ERIC KELLER" <eekeller-at-psu.edu>]

Just as an aside, a plurality of drive manucacturers are going to the Can bus. 
The problem with Can for most of us is that Can interfaces for pc's cost at
least $100, and that's if you hang it off of the parallel port. The pci
interfaces are much more.
Eric



On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:24:58, "David Volosky" wrote:

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> I off-loaded a white paper from the Delta Tau site ~ a year ago. It
> indicated that they ( a company making PC based motion solutions ) were
> heading toward a Firewire connection to a dedicated motion control.
> I have retired the Pmac card  ( VME , I think ) and parted out the system,
> so I no longer have interest in DT.
> It seems to me that they were thinking of the future and just had a little
> jump, over this group, on this issue.
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> Dave
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