lol its not ruled out yet.....

while the DOS control seems powerful it has a few issues.....

I think I have an older version and while the g code has functions for tapers, convex and concave profiles as well as threading what it seems the later version settled with was all the routines to do progressive stock removal to get into the position to use these functions. I need to see what I have and how it works but if i have to calculate all the points and use loads of lines of code for the stock removal side then a new motion controller may happen faster than I planned.

once i have the mill it will be interesting to compare as it will have modern CAD CAM programs feeding it to mach3 so I will be able to compare both worlds