[Info-vax] OpenVMS x64 Atom project

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On Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at 3:46:09 PM UTC-7, John Dallman wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H6AJigJnNs 
> 
> Running VMS on small systems for "edge computing," which is given the 
> clearest explanation I've encountered for that term. 
> 
> John

Congratulations on this work. 
This being c.o.v., where would it be w/o a peanut gallery?
o Operating scripts in DCL? It's one tool. I could also sharpen pencils with a cheese grater.  "When the only tool you have is a hammer..."
o Security on the GPIO interface? Maybe ACLs? or somesuch to harden that a bit. Security isn't mentioned much in this presentation. Which is a real omission given the zeigeist of insecure IoT .

and finally:
Who will contribute to this effort given the tooling available on OVMS? Knowing what I do about Rust, it's just too painful to contemplate developing system software in C or assembler. See also, the concurrent discussions about other DECset tools.
I have to admit that I haven't been following VMS Software as closely as I should, but I see real a software development boostrapping problem here.  I mean this to be apropos of a comment by Mark Mothersbaugh regarding the instruments used by Devo. Something to effect of "Imagine what we'd sound like if we used better instruments..."