Yes, looking good so far and hopefully it continues the same way. I like the SS and ESS but sadly Greg just didnt seem to want to go for more industrial type controllers, may be a mistake on his part, maybe not, time will tell but I think the Mach user base is moving away from the hobby only world and getting into production/industrial sized/style machines. There will always be the market for basic controllers that take place of the parallel port but the future, at least in my mind, is industrial quality and spec controllers.
Regarding the threading, not managed to do any testing with axis yet as I am waiting on a small motor arriving from the USA for the X. On screen its really hard to tell if it does pull out or if its delayed, some times it looks like it does, others not so only real axis tests will show it up. If it has the delay then they will need to get that sorted before anyone will take the controller seriously for a lathe and it would be a shame for that not to happen as so far it does look like its an extremely accomplished controller with industrial qualities.
Hood