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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: February 12, 2011, 05:09:34 PM »

64 bit os can use memory more than 4G, which is a huge plus than the 32 bit os.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: January 22, 2011, 01:04:39 PM »

>The latency is in nanoseconds as compared to milliseconds with USB.
It is good to know Ethernet has a great advantage than the USB.
Do you have a link to your Ethernet device?

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: January 22, 2011, 10:10:55 AM »

>I believe that low cost Ethernet based motion devices are on the horizon.
Does this mean you can plug the control board to a Ethernet router or switch instead of to a PC? How about the delay by high traffic on Ethernet?

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: January 20, 2011, 09:36:23 AM »

>(My gaming Comp. died) runs USB 1.0. lol.
what game are you playing, c&c?

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: January 19, 2011, 12:46:22 PM »

things did change a lot.
But there are still many doesn't. For instance, Ethernet, serial communication, RS485, RS422, CAN bus, etc. Those industry protocol and hardware probably still will last a very long time. Mach 2 and 3 are more on the industry and hobby side, which probably means a Win 7 64 bit support is a good decision.
As long as used/aged machines are still available, this won't be a big deal. However, when all those aged machines are out of service, Win 7 64 is the only way to go probably in next few years. Or try the open-source Linux. (Is there a 64 bit of Linux for CNC purpose? Just curious.)

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: January 19, 2011, 11:13:00 AM »

One other interesting thing I found when I was searching for a laptop with PCMCIA card bay, is, all the machine at local store are preloaded with Win7 64.
None of them came with a Win7 32.
Can you get Win7 32 preloaded from Dell? All my Desktops and Laptops are either HP or Toshiba. If yes, I will order from Dell thereafter.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: January 19, 2011, 11:07:53 AM »

The bad thing is:  now, there is no expansion bay on new laptops.
I just did a quick check on Bestbuy, Costco, etc., I haven't succeed on locate even a single laptop allowing me adding extra PCMCIA cards to it.
So I have to stick with desktop, which normally has PCI or "PCIe 1x" slots.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: January 19, 2011, 11:04:30 AM »

PCI and PCIe can be used to add a dedicated serial and parallel port to PC too.
I am currently test a PCI to serial card, and it works very well in Win7.
I will test a PCIe to parallel card and see how it goes with Win7.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: January 10, 2011, 10:05:07 AM »

wow. Mission impossible. Quite surprise but there should be a way to override the 64 bit win7 driver signature.
I will have to stick with 32 bit windows 7 for now, even though some of the new machines got >4G of memory.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: January 05, 2011, 11:07:26 PM »

Well, now it is 2011, any plan or progress on the windows 7 64 bit?