HCL stands for Hardware Compatibility List. Funny though that you should make my point for me. Hardware Control Language was written by IBM for the AS400 platform. lol Still a Computer system in its own right.
As far as not being possible for hardware to be controlled in windows. Depends on which windows. There were 5 (well known) versions of windows that gave you direct access to the hardware. They all were based on a Dos Platform. Care to guess which ones?
What did you say you were running your CNC from? Mac maybe?
Just because I have extra servers doesn't mean they are old. Just means we upgraded. Never said anything about old.
As for the Exploits, you are correct. Provided the system is non networked, no access to any drive system other than HDD and a single operator. In those circumstances, I would put any XP system up to the same standard. You can't compare any other windows platform to a dos platform. That is comparing apples to oranges. They were designed and used for different things.
It's interesting that you bring that book up. The information contained in there was pivotal for the development of Windows. Hence Plug and Play and hardware detection through IO device mapping.  |