[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 2/15/22 11:00, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2022-02-15 kl. 16:46, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
>> On 2/15/22 10:16, Dan Cross wrote:
>>> In article <j71r42Fh9vsU1 at mid.individual.net>,
>>> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Maybe, but the push seems to be for virtualization and I saw a number
>>>> of OpenVMS job announcements that seemed to be production floor systems
>>>> which probably can't virtualized.
>>>
>>> Why not?  There are reasons to virtualize systems on-prem.
>>>
>>
>> I guess it depends on how you actually communicate with the
>> devices on the floor.  When I think of production floor systems
>> I think of cables between running machines and computers.
>> Probably my PDP-11 past seeping through.
>>
>> bill
>>
> 
> Our VMS production support system only talks over the network.
> Could just as well be in a VM as on the current Alpha.
> 

I thought of that afterwards. I guess a  lot of it today is PLC's
talking to the bigger iron over the network.  But that just leaves
me wondering how one does realtime.

bill