> > Has anyone heard of the "MUMPS" operating system or programming environment? > Any info would be appreciated! > Clint Schwartz > [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask]