[Info-vax] Meditech in the news

[Forster, Michael]

FYI and FWIW, GT.M is totally different variant than ISM and DSM versions of MUMPS.

Not knocking Arne's sharing.

M/11, ISM and DSM morphed into Intersystems' Cache which has morphed into Iris.

M/11 is the PDP-11 version that your boot tape was a combination of OS and MUMPS.

VIST/A is a presentation and abstraction layer between MUMPS and the programmers. Seems that they have dropped the "/" in the acronym for "Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA)". Or I might be confusing and "VA FileMan" being the data abstraction layer. You can search and find active use and versions for InterSystems Cache/IRIS on Linux at this point mostly.

Read or don't:
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/03/vista-computer-history-va-conspiracy-000367/

Michael Forster
Enterprise Database Administrator III
(Formerly Enterprise Storage and IDX Architect)
InterSystems Cache/ISM/DSM System Architect
Clinical Practice Services | Medical College of Wisconsin
O: (414) 955-4967 |  mforster at mcw.edu

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On 1/6/2022 10:46 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> One may not like MUMPS and its variants.

For those with an strong desire to try MUMPS aka M on VMS, then:

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/files/GT.M-Alpha-OpenVMS/V6.2-001/__;!!H8mHWRdzp34!t6BI6Bb6H_N2g3j0rvTJbFkIucWmmwhF4Cnmqg21hGo-2jK3-h2nQNfkopWjOmU$

should be a VMS Alpha build of GT.M version 6.2 (no VMS version of
6.3 or 7.0).

I have not tried it myself.

Arne
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