I don't know how many of you fine people are familiar with the MUMPS
programming language, but MUMPS development accounts for about 50% of
my income. Considering that it has as storied of a background as UNIX
(having been first implemented in ~1966), and is old, I'm wondering if
any of you have any thoughts about it.
Also, I'm wondering if any private collections have any older MUMPS
implementations around, not necessarily so that I can try to get them,
but so that I can find out if they've been preserved. Since
InterSystems bought out Digital Standard MUMPS, as well as
contemporaries from Micronetics and DataTree, these old
implementations seem rare and hard to find. I've long wanted to get
ahold of a VAX-based MUMPS implementation, but the closest thing I've
ever found is an installed copy of DSM for Alpha on a cluster I picked
up, with no media.
Any thoughts or information?
jpw