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> Has anyone heard of the "MUMPS" operating system or programming environment?
> Any info would be appreciated!
>   Clint Schwartz
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Yes, but you're really taxing the depths of my memory.  Multi-User
Medical Programming System if I recall rightly.  Developed around
a group of medicos with a computer-science bent at--I may be wrong
here--Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.  There was a connexion
with MIT but I can't remember any details.  It was (is?) a sort of
early SQL-type environment--but the criticisms I heard were about
very unforgiving syntax and very proprietary.
 
HTH,
Ron Burnett
Royal Children's Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
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