RE: Re[2]: EMC for windows

["Markus Meyer" <meyer-at-mesw.de>]

Richard,

> Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 12:50:10 PM, you wrote:
> 
> MM> using EMC (as a machine controller) on Windows is not 
> possible. That's
> MM> because Windows doesn't support hard realtime which is 
> essential for
> MM> machine control.
> 
> I often see that stated, but why is that the leading PC based
> retrofit software, OpenCNC, uses Windows NT with a RT addon?

As I wrote in the same post:

>Some commercial vendors have extended Windows with realtime
>capabilities in a similar way [to RTLinux/RTAI], but these
>solutions are expensive and - more important - are not
>supported by EMC at the moment.

I don't know what the exact pricing of OpenCNC is, but it certainly is
not Public Domain or GPL-licensed, I suppose.


Markus