[log in to unmask] (CLINTON SCHWARTZ) wrote:
 
>Has anyone heard of the "MUMPS" operating system or programming environment?
>Any info would be appreciated!
>  Clint Schwartz
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Further to what Glenn Mitchell wrote on the 2nd of this month, I've just
been on a training course this week which briefly covered M-Technology (the
new name for Mumps).  So if anyone is interested....
 
M Technology is an ANSI standardised group of technologies including
database, language, and other facilities. M is implemented by several
vendors on different platforms including IBM (RS6000) and Dec (VAX).  It is
available from several vendors on PC as a DOS product (no solely Windows
versions, but Windows libraries for DOS TSR are available).  M Technology
supports both single and multi user systems, and networked systems
(virtually transparent).  The M database engine supports replication,
shadowing, journalling, transaction processing and distributed database
processing, distributed caching and more.  Application source code is
scaleable and runs without modification (using standaradized facilities)
from DOS to large networked systems.  The database is hierarchical has no
predefined structure (not as table and fields), no data types (everything is
a string), and is accessed as an array.  You could consider the Windows .INI
file to be a simple limited two level form of M databases (well sort of).  M
has a huge reputation for being lightning fast!  The demos I saw were on
small (17,000 record) datasets on a small 4MB notebook PC (don't know the
denomination), BUT it was finding entries as fast as could be typed (which
was faster than the screen could be repainted - impressive.  M
implementations are generally not free.  The PC versions we were shown all
have individual user licensing.  Windows implementations are due before the
end of year.
 
There's more, but that should give you the gist.
 
Cheers.
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