[Info-vax] VMS and the Internet of Things (IoT)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-09-11, Kerry Main <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The OpenVMS of the past with HP and its expensive licenses on
> proprietary, expensive HW designed to compete with Solaris and AIX
> should not be compared to OpenVMS on X86-64 (possibly ARM??) with a
> new TCPIP stack, new file system, new security features and
> (hopefully) a new licensing model with V9+ versions designed to
> compete with other OS's on the X86-64 platform.
>

I'm confused. Are you suggesting that VMS can occupy the middle tier
in my 3 tier model and be the OS that runs inside the controller box
which is located within the facility itself and which talks directly
to the sensors ?

If that's the case, I'm curious how much embedded knowledge you have
because I am absolutely not seeing VMS as being suitable for that
position for these reasons:

1) It would have to run on ARM for one thing (x86-64 is so overpowered
by comparison, and with power and hardware space requirements to match,
that it would be like using a supercomputer to calculate your payroll),

2) VMS would have to be structured to allow you to create a BSP to
allow VMS to run on your custom hardware and

3) Device driver writing under VMS would have to be a lot more modern
than it currently is.

The only possible viable role I am seeing for VMS is as the remote
server that the IoT device/controller talks to.

Simon.

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