Just my opinion, all of Fadals controls are the worst you can buy.
The only control less accurate and slower are the really old original Fanuc OM controls...
I have 7-Fadals; 6-CNC88HS and 1 - 104D. No matter what you do, avoid the 104/D like the plague. Fadal is scrapping the 104/D because it has so many bugs they can't fix it - they are cancelling the 104/D program (rightfully so).
As for the CNC88 controls, they have to be the most user friendly control out there (IE: SIMPLE). In short, the 88's don't have as many "cute canned cycles" as a Haas.
With that being said, all of our programs are programmed off-line and DNC'd to the machines, so it's a no-brainer for us to like the CNC88's as we don't need the bells and whistles.
But if I was standing at the controls, programming the parts at the controls, I'd take a good look at Haas - that's where those "cute canned cycles" would be handy.