Sorry all, I haven't been attending, have some other fish in the kettle. Just curious though, has anyone ported the Mach3 I/O to a gen purpose PCI I/O card?
I have noticed lately just how bad the realtime interupts can be via parallel ports, especially with a high demand GUI, for instance a large toolpath display area.

Whacko for realtime

Not that I know of Whacko, but that is an interesting thought.

Brett

It will be, for sure, as the PCI gen I/O cards have configuration software, there is quite a few available. It shouldn't be a problem doing a plugin. My main reason for this is to check if there is a lower priority in Win Kernel for native ports. The PCI bus by default should have a higher priority. I'm going shoppin for one. I would also like to gen a WinXP embedded footprint for Mach3 mainly. Will get rid of many, many overheads as far as Kernel load goes, but not as far as $ load goes. The XP license works out more than XP home, even on bulk license. And the Cap for the SDK is not cheap either.

Whacko

Be sure to keep us posted Whacko.

Brett

Hi Guys:

  A PCI I/O wouldnt really make things fatser or more stable unless it was intelligent. Be a bitch to do really, I suspect the SS is the best way to go at this point if the PP is troublesome for anyone.

Art

Even if you did do a PCI card, with a Plug in, the Plug in update is Still 10 hrz, or 40 for the fast update, you would hit that wall.

scott