Quantum - The next generation

[Chaoticone]

You should be ashamed for taunting us with it.

What a tease. Exercise our self control you hartless rascal.

No, really. I know you guys are wide open. I will be glad to see it though.

Brett

[Brian Barker]

You need to know that we are working and not just taking time off

[Chaoticone]

No, really. I know you guys are wide open.

I know, two of the hardest working guys in the world. What can I say, you guys are in demand.

You must be doing something right.

Brett

[Greolt]

This is very much a question and not a suggestion.  I am not smart enough to understand the complexities.

Would it not be better to abandon the LPT in Quantum? 

My limited understanding is that every operation that Mach or Quantum is doing must be limited
so as to leave enough processing power for Mach to provide the exact timing pulses.

If this is so then would it not follow that abandoning the LPT would free up things a lot to do whatever
magic things you are wanting.

Again I am only an uneducated carpenter, not a programing wizard. 

[fer_mayrl]

IF there is the option of either one, people that find the LPT option suitable can use it without needing to buy a Grex, galil or the pod.

I dont think that using the LPT aproach will take up resources for whatever magic they want to perform.

Again, an educated mechanical and electrical engineer, not a programing wizard 

[Greolt]

I can certainly understand a reluctance to not leave LPT users out of things.

Mach was born because of and evolved around the pulsing driver that Art wrote.

Just wondered if sticking with it is limiting things a bit. 

When I watched the video series that Art did I remember him mentioning in passing that because
of the pulsing engine running in the background that certain display things had to be limited.

Would love to hear Art's take on this.

Though I would also understand a reluctance to say anything to give concern to the large existing LPT user base.

[wcarrothers]

i'm guessing that as with any project like this you (Art and the others) perhaps have a project time line of some sort?  I know everything gets pushed out with development but with different dependancies and such but wondering if that might give us a target to let our mouths water over..

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[wcarrothers]

Guess I retract my question since there is a test version of quantum able to be downloaded..

Now I will want to play (rather then cut actual work my machine has to do)...  In addition to imaging my machine so I can run the 2 totaly separate even though I guess they don't need to be...

Should be sweet when it answeres all the needs I'm looking at (ie actually start using my grex, having 3+ mpg inputs through the grex) rather then currently using the parallel:)

Thanks art

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[Brian Barker]

Hello there is a demo of quantum on the web page Please play with it and tell us how it works on your machine We DON'T care if you find a bug! There are MANY in it.. for example it will not restart after a feedhold! This is a test to see if you get a smoother running machine  and so far all have been smoother or the same (This is a good thing)

Also the Printer port will be in the quantum but NOT under Vista We don't have a driver for it and would like to have people change to external devices as the new computer don't even have P Ports.

Hope that helps and please post what you see!

[wcarrothers]

Mine seems to restart if I pause with feed hold..

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