[Info-vax] Meditech in the news
plugh
jchimene at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 09:00:11 EST 2022
On Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 1:27:36 PM UTC-7, George Cornelius wrote:
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> Oh, and Mumps stores its data on disk with the same tree structure
> as in memory, again with names as subscripts. Data in external
> storage is prefixed with an up-caret, say ^A instead of A.
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> Its facility with keyed data arranged in trees, and its facility
> with delimited data items, made it a rapid prototyping language.
Yes, forgetting that caret... Thanks for the memories.
Regarding the transparency of file I/O in Mumps and her spawn:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/22/01/12/222254/ultraram-breakthrough-could-combine-memory-and-storage-into-one
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