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

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>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),

Well, by the time things actually come around, it might not be ARM
anymore, and we might have some cheap stripped down x86 low power x86
stuff from some Chinese fab too.  So that might not need to happen.

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

That isn't going to happen.

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

I would say that this is actually a plus for VMS, the fact that the 
device driver configuration is relatively crude.  That means that much
less to go wrong and become exploited.  

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

I think even that is kind of doubtful.  Perhaps the original poster
is confusing VMS with VaxELN?
--scott

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