Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Philipp Überbacher wrote:
>> Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 01:32:00 +0200:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
>>>
>>>> Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200:
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>
>>>> I fear something named simply 'emc' isn't easy to find around the net.
>>>>
>>> Try
>>> <http://www.linuxcnc.org/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-emc2-aj07-i386.iso>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers, Gene
>>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>>> 75. I think it should not be doing that...
>>>
>>> --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, I found it eventually (I'm really bad at using search engines).
>> Quite interesting, it uses a RTAI patched kernel. I also read this has a
>> module to disable SMIs, which is kind of hard to believe..
>>
>> At my school we transfered the CAD files per floppy to a DOS box that
>> controlled the CNC machine, guess that's for the same reason, bad rt
>> capabilities of newer OSes and machines.
>>
>
> Never ever! I bet the DOS machine 'controls' micro controllers used by
> the CNC machine. Imagine a conical object where you wish to engrave a
> word in a reasonable time. Have fun using my computer + a Linux kernel
> rt (or any windows rt) to do this ;).

Pardon, you added old DOS machine ... no no, a 80286 + digital research
DOS isn't able to do this kind of real-time too. I bet there are pics,
DSPs or any other micro chips involved.

Regarding to MIDI, I will repair my ATARI ST, but I still belief that
Linux is the right way for the future.
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Received on Thu Jun 17 12:15:05 2010