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[01:21:30] <KimK> Rino_: Still there?
[12:22:32] <kwallace2> Hmm, this looks interesting:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/272410970086 C132231 Ex-Cell-O D-B 1212A Opposed Dual Head Precision Boring Machine
[15:10:48] <KakuRoze> jepler: I got it running. Thank you for the info :)
[18:26:42] <KakuRoze> How come linuxcnc requires a realtime system when there are quite a few mill control softwares that run on windows without realtime support?
[19:07:32] <KimK_laptop_> KakuRoze: One answer to your question is that LinuxCNC itself does the controlling in software, whereas other systems (that run on recent versions of Windows) must delegate the controlling to external hardware.) This is also why they can offer USB (and other non-deterministic) interfaces, because Windows just acts as a GUI to the controlling hardware. Does that help?
[19:11:12] <KimK_laptop_> KakuRoze: Good for you, BTW, for getting LinuxCNC to install on Ubuntu 16.04. Did you follow someone's procedure, or figure it out yourself? If so, did you write it up and post it so that others may benefit from your work? Thanks very much if you did.