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

[John Reagan]

On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 11:19:24 AM UTC-4, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> On 2016-09-12 13:34:21 +0000, Kerry Main said:
> >
> > Does this answer the question of being capable of addressing the 
> > mid-tier layer in the IoT world??
> 
> No, because we don't live in that world any more.  Running SCADA systems is
> a very different thing than dealing with highly integrated small scale
> machines.
> 
> And... having done factory automation work in the eighties using VMS as
> the second tier, I can certainly attest that VMS isn't even the right tool
> for that job.  It worked, but boy was it painful and boy did we wish for
> RT-11 back....
> --scott
> 
> -- 
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

I still have my CAMAC standard and remember those CAMAC crates (both serial and parallel buses).  Worked great on our 780s in the early 80s.