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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-09-11, Kerry Main <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax
> [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
>> Behalf Of Simon Clubley via Info-vax
>> Sent: 11-Sep-16 3:19 PM
>> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
>> Cc: Simon Clubley
>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] VMS and the Internet of
> Things
>> (IoT)
>> 
>> Have you ever written any code which runs under
> a RTOS
>> and have you
>> ever been through the process of generating a
> custom
>> RTOS image
>> which includes your code to run on your own
> hardware ?
>> 
>
> No, I'm not a programmer.
>
> Having stated this, for over a decade or so,
> OpenVMS was the defacto std for running process
> control systems in many manufacturing
> environments. The competition was HP-UX, but was
> nowhere near as popular as OpenVMS.
>

Unfortunately Kerry times change and so do requirements. Embedded
systems are no longer great big boxes that you boot from hard disks
or other external devices and which have only a few system hardware
configurations that are fully known to the manufacturer of the
operating system in question.

>
>> 
>> PS: Please fix your line wrapping. You currently
> look as if
>> you are
>> typing on a VIC20. :-)
>> 
>
> I recently upgraded my Outback client and the
> external text wrapping is set lowered to 50.
>

The problem is that you are mangling the messages you are replying
to as the messages are not being reflowed to 50 characters but the
lines are simply being chopped in two. See what your client did to
my paragraph above.

Simon.

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