[Info-vax] MUMPS/CACHE/ISM/DSM/GT.M/VISTA/VA FILEMAN

[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