On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:00:42 -0500
Gordon Shumway wrote:

The radial arm saw can also rip. A miter saw, slider or not, can not.


in the war department manual i linked to there are pictures of an old
dewalt radial arm saw and it looks like they attached a router bit to
it and used it sort of like a shaper

they also show it being used for ripping and plowing

i had never even heard of plowing in woodwork context so that is a new
term for me