topic Re: DEC MUMPS tutorial in Operating System - OpenVMS

DEC MUMPS tutorial

Praphul Menon_1 — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 05:27:09 GMT

Hi,
I wanted pointers to resources/URLs with tutorials on DSM (Digital Standard MUMPS). Also, i would be glad to hear about experiences in migrating DSM from VMS to Linux.

warm regards

Re: DEC MUMPS tutorial

Keith Cayemberg — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 06:13:34 GMT

Hi Praphul,

I have no personal experience with MUMPS but I have collected a number of useful links concerning MUMPS and OpenVMS. Please see the attached HTML File.

Cheers!

Keith Cayemberg
IBM Business Services - Hanover, Germany

Re: DEC MUMPS tutorial

Dan Herron — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 07:11:53 GMT

Go to WWW.GOOGLE.COM and search on the the kewords "Digital" and "MUMPS" and you will have over 19,000 references from which to choose!

Good luck!

Re: DEC MUMPS tutorial

Tom O'Toole — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:22:57 GMT

www.intersystems.com. Migrating to linux you would most likely be ending up on the CACHE database, which can be downloaded from this site for free (for personal use).

Re: DEC MUMPS tutorial

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 03:55:52 GMT

PM,

I wrote some notes when reading the manuals.
It's in the form of faq.

Wim

Re: DEC MUMPS tutorial

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:01:30 GMT

PM,

Most important remark is that you need AIJ to have a fault tolerant DSM usage.

Wim
(we lost data of 30 seconds with BIJ only)

Re: DEC MUMPS tutorial

Cass Witkowski — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:05:40 GMT

DSM only runs on OpenVMS.

Re: DEC MUMPS tutorial

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 04:16:59 GMT

It ran also on Ultrix and DEC OSF.
http://www.sysworks.com.au/disk$vaxdocsep951/decw$book/dy6baa12.p12.decw$book

The history
http://math-cs.cns.uni.edu/~okane/cgi-bin/newpres/mumps.history/history.html

and I think CachÃ© runs on multiple platforms. But I can not confirm if it is 100% compatible.

W

Re: DEC MUMPS tutorial

Jesse Chambless — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:52:46 GMT

DSM will not run on Linux. It is specifically for the VAX/Alpha platform. Cache v 5.x.x runs on Linux. It is an object oriented Mumps product from Intersystems Corporation. It is available with a free download from www.intersys.com. This is a single user version.

Re: DEC MUMPS tutorial

Ian Miller. — Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:22:29 GMT

I'm surprised noone said why downgrade to linux?

Re: DEC MUMPS tutorial

Bob Blunt — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:32:35 GMT

PM, as others have mentioned, DSM is VAX and Alpha "specific." However, there are several derivations of MUMPS that are multi-platform. One I've seen is simply called "M." I've seen it used in DSM environments and runs on WinTel at least, I believe.

Cache is Intersystem's replacement for DSM and it is multiplatform, multiple O/S. Most of the Digital-centric hooks, bells and whistles are gone. Based on conversations with my DSM customers, Cache isn't a direct, totally upward compatible replacement and requires customization and migration when moving from DSM to Cache.

There are also other derivitive Mumps offerings from other vendors that have been used to develop rather unique, non-medical solutions.