Re: Digital Standard Mumps

2019-04-18 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 18, 2019, at 7:41 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 5:11 PM Paul Koning wrote: >> >> ... >> Poor man's hypervisor, I like that. >> >> That's reasonably accurate. RSTS/E had "run-time systems", originally the >> interpreter, support library, and user interf

Re: Digital Standard Mumps

2019-04-18 Thread John Willis via cctalk
DSM went to InterSystems Corp. during their spree of buying up every MUMPS implementation vendor they could get their hands on. They got DataTree (DTM), Micronetics (MSM), and DSM. They already had ISM. They merged ISM and features from the others into OpenM, which evolved into Caché, their curr

Re: Digital Standard Mumps

2019-04-18 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 5:11 PM Paul Koning wrote: > > > > On Apr 18, 2019, at 3:06 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:41 PM Dan Veeneman via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 4/18/2019 2:27 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > > my memory is that DSM-11 is

Re: Digital Standard Mumps

2019-04-18 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 18, 2019, at 3:06 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:41 PM Dan Veeneman via cctalk > wrote: > On 4/18/2019 2:27 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > my memory is that DSM-11 is an operating system all its own, not just a > > language processor running on top of

Re: Digital Standard Mumps

2019-04-18 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 4/18/19 2:41 PM, Dan Veeneman wrote: > On 4/18/2019 2:27 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> my memory is that DSM-11 is an operating system all its own, not just a >> language processor running on top of a standard OS like RSTS. > > In the late 1980s and early 1990s, we used DSM running on V

Re: Digital Standard Mumps

2019-04-18 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:41 PM Dan Veeneman via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 4/18/2019 2:27 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > my memory is that DSM-11 is an operating system all its own, not just a > language processor running on top of a standard OS like RSTS. > > In the late

Re: Digital Standard Mumps

2019-04-18 Thread Dan Veeneman via cctalk
On 4/18/2019 2:27 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > my memory is that DSM-11 is an operating system all its own, not just a > language processor running on top of a standard OS like RSTS. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, we used DSM running on VMS 4.7 for a nationwide (United States) mortgage

Re: Digital Standard Mumps

2019-04-18 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 18, 2019, at 1:56 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk > wrote: > > > Does anyone know what the current status of this might be? I am > fairly certain Mentec didn't get this and I am not sure anyone > did. Did it merely die when everyone thought Mumps was on the > down hill slide? Was i

Digital Standard Mumps

2019-04-18 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
Does anyone know what the current status of this might be? I am fairly certain Mentec didn't get this and I am not sure anyone did. Did it merely die when everyone thought Mumps was on the down hill slide? Was it ever really a DEC product or was it something DEC picked up along the way after Mas