My search for better,& cheaper, controll has led me to N.I.S.T.
National Inistitute of Standards and Technology...I'm sure many of you have heard of EMC....well NIST provides the source code from which EMC derived...
This is the U.S. goverments industral standards...there has been post up-dates as recent as of 10-31-2005...support for various platforms is current...if you have programming experience...or are just courious check it out...things to look for ....MEL....(Manfacturing Engineering Laboratory)......RCS...(Real-time Control Systems Liabary-Software and Documentation)....It's all on there and it's all free to public....Source codes..compliers...pre-written software....open sources...EMC (Enhanced Machine Controller links) and plenty of contacts and e-mail sources for more information....if any of you find this helpfull drop me a line....lets take the bite out of motion controll expence's ....and help set a Standard for all...
NIST link
about MEL
link to RCS liabary