[Diy_efi] PC-laptop based efi

[Dave Dahlgren]

My cnc runs under nt 4.0 sp 6 with a real time add on I will have to see what it
is but I do believe it to be QNX. The pc updates the motor controllers in the
millisecond range as the largest move it will make without an up date is around
3 msec..
Dave Dahlgren


> I agree, you will pull your hair out trying to do this purely with a
> PC-like design.  You will make your life much harder by having all the
> time critical stuff percolate all the way up to the CPU.  At the very
> least you would want to run some custom bastardized FreeDOS or something
> running one big honkin' polling loop.  FORGET running Windows, it's out
> of the question.  RTLinux or QNX may be possible candidates thoough.
> 

> Brian
> (of course I've never actually done any of this, but I've been down the
> same "wouldn't it be neat" trail of thought a million times...)
> 
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