A bit of history of Mach and LinuxCNC

[Another JohnSParticipant @anotherjohns]

I know lots of people here are Mach users, so you may like to find out a bit of background:

LinuxCNC used to be called EMC, until some company decided to patent "EMC", and somehow won. (I don't think it was much of a fight)

EMC has its' roots in the US NIST (standards); not sure of the date.

https://www.nist.gov/publications/enhanced-machine-controller-emc-open-architecture-controller-machine-tools

is a paper from 1994.

A while ago I did see a message from Art Fenerty requesting permission to use some of the EMC code for Windows, but I can't seem to locate that anymore.

But, the following message from 2002 might help shed some light:

http://emc.sourceforge.net/NIST-archive/msg05363.html

"Pieces of EMC were used as a base for Art Fenerty's Master CNC and

Mach-1, which does run on some Windows systems, but it is NOT EMC."

I find it really interesting that this "stuff" has been around for at least 25 years; I would not have guessed it.

Anyway, FYI, or TMI, or whatever, for what is a rainy day here. JohnS.

 

 

Edited By John Alexander Stewart on 19/04/2020 18:57:08

[Another JohnSParticipant @anotherjohns]

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Thanks for that, John

… and there was me fondly believing that EMC was ElectroMagnetic Compatibility.

MichaelG.

[mike TParticipant @miket56243]

LinuxCNC, was formerly known as EMC2, which was the second variant of Enhanced Machine Controller, Linux-based CNC software.

And as MichaelG will no doubt be able to confirm:

In physics, mass–energy equivalence is the principle that anything having mass has an equivalent amount of energy and vice versa, with these fundamental quantities directly relating to one another by

	=	energy
	=	mass
	=	the speed of light

 

 

Edited By mike T on 19/04/2020 22:57:29

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