[ih] History of IoT

[Michael Thomas]

On 2/13/23 1:20 PM, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 01:01:54PM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote:
>> Was your printer an IoT device? I'd say no: it was just using normal host
>> protocols to do what it did locally in the first place (ie, lpr). And
>> shoe-horning LPRd into the printer itself was painful because lpr expected a
>> disk to buffer everything. As I mentioned, I almost trotted up to ISI
>> because of it.
> [Device  - serial port - computer(device-compute,app-stack/tcp/ip)] - ethernet/Internet
>
> If this [] combination is not an IoT device in your opinion, then i would
> say > 90% of whats today called IoT devices are not IoT devices in your
> definition because they can all be decomposed in some device connected
> via an internal serial/parallel port to some internal "computer" device.

I replied in another comment that if you had to drag a probably racked 
LSI/11 along with whatever the device was to move it, that doesn't seem 
very embedded and or a Thing. IoT to me implies that it's part of an 
integrated whole.

Mike