[Info-vax] PowerX Roadmap - Extended beyond 2020

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-09-16, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> IanD wrote:
>>> When one looks at things like the Gartner report on IoT for 2017 - 2018, the
>>> power requirements of devices is going to need to be extremely low
>> Again, I ask, what has this to do with VMS.  That's a HW issue.  You might say 
>> that VMS doesn't run on light weight HW, today, but that doesn't mean it 
>> couldn't in the future.  However, just talking about VMS as an OS, perhaps it 
>> just might work well in some new environments.
>>
> 
> Once again... :-)
> 
> How many VMS systems do you think are capable of running on a single
> PP3 battery or the equivalent current of a PP3 ?
> 
> Once you solve that problem with either an ARM or MIPS port how much
> effort do you think it would then take to restructure VMS along the
> lines of an embedded OS so that you can write a BSP to allow VMS to
> be brought up on your custom ARM or MIPS board ?
> 
> This would also include the tools to generate a custom VMS bootable
> image (which would include your application) which could be booted
> directly (for example) from flash. (Note that this isn't a USB flash
> drive but flash sitting directly on the memory bus.)
> 
> What do you think are the chances of VSI doing this work when there
> are a large range of established embedded OS options, both real time
> and otherwise, already in existence ?
> 
> IOW, it simply isn't going to happen.
> 
> Simon.
> 

I never said it would happen.  In fact, I do believe that I wrote that VSI would 
never spend money on something from which they could never see any revenue.

But, it's not going to happen because of business reasons, not technical reasons.