Terry and crew;
OK, you ready for the story of why January 1, 1841 (why not an even number
like 1840, or 1850)?? Here is the story and there is even a statue to the
event in Boston Commons. What is the first M in MUMPS? Massacusetts
General Hospital. This is where MUMPS came from originally (or at least the
name). Do keep in mind that had they been true to the initials, it would
have been MGHUMPS. Not nearly so lyrical....
They needed to have a date back in the mid 1800s to make sure no one has a
negative birthdate. Great!, Now at Mass General, the first use of ether in
a surgical situation was first performed in 1841. This event is celebrated
as "Ether Day" at Mass General. OK, great. January 1st seems like a
convenient date for the day #1. All other dates flow from there for $H.
60K approaches in rapid day by day fashion to turn on the 9th of April. Way
cool. History and culture in the same email. Hope to see you all there in
Boston.
Best wishes from Chris Richardson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Wiechmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Meeting - Boston, April 7-10
> Never tell a story on Friday night...
>
> Barry's quote should have said "Gee - that means that the 16th bit will
> overflow on DSM-11 5536 days after that and $H will go back to zero and
> all the PDP-11's will start crashing!"
>
> Good night - they told me to go back to my room ;-)
>
> Terry Wiechmann wrote:
>
> > I'm helping NEMUG with the celebration by calling a number of 'old
> > timers' with personal invitations. I called Barry Herring to invite
> > him to the bash. (Barry was responsible for DSM-11 V2+ and was the
> > Engineering Manager of the DSM products at DEC). I told him about $H
> > turning to 60000 on April 9th. It was quiet for a few seconds and then
> > he said "Gee - that means that the 16th bit will overflow on DSM-11,
> > $H will go back to zero and all the PDP-11's will start crashing!"
> >
> > ... and they will be raiding the rest homes for all of us old PDP-11
> > guys...:-)
> >
> > Have a good weekend...
> >
> > Terry L. Wiechmann
> >
> > K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> >
> >> It's not called legacy technology, it's called heritage technology!
8-]
> >>
> >> The origin for the date was chosen to be a point in time such that no
> >> living person circa 1970 could possibly have been born at a negative
$H.
> >>
> >> I wonder how many MUMPS applications will be around for people to be
> >> worried about bugs associated with $H crossing 100,000 (Oct 16, 2114).
> >>
> >> -- Bhaskar
> >>
> >> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 15:17 -0800, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> The date on this web site caught my eye...
> >>>
> >>> 01/01/1841
> >>>
> >>> Wow. I didn't know mumps was around that long ago... Perhaps it ran
> >>> on Alister Babbage's Difference Engine
> >>> engine?
> >>>
> >>> :-)
> >>>
> >>> Kevin
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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