Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!198.186.194.250.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Rich Alderson Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp11,comp.sys.dec,vmsnet.pdp-11 Subject: Re: Y3K for PDP-11 Operating Systems Date: 24 May 2011 21:01:26 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 35 Sender: alderson+news@panix5.panix.com Message-ID: References: <4d99c3b6$0$23756$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4dc1e27c.40366475@news.tpgi.com.au> <93vbcaF3luU1@mid.individual.net> <940bm5Fcc3U1@mid.individual.net> <941ob1Fre1U1@mid.individual.net> <9425gcFhnpU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1306285296 16825 166.84.1.5 (25 May 2011 01:01:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 01:01:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 22.3 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.dec:483 Johnny Billquist writes: > On 2011-05-24 09.42, Bill Gunshannon wrote: >> ANSI-M/MUMPS. Well, not really an OS per se. It is usually hosted >> on Unix, Windows and, yes, VMS. Think DSM!! It is a totally self- >> contained system with its own DB built in and there is no desire to >> have look, run, or be programmed as anything other than MUMPS. In >> all these cases you see the same loyalty I would have had for something >> like RSTS if it had grown beyond the limitations of the PDP-11 hard- >> ware. Johnny, I get the feeling from reading your posts that you >> probably look on RSX the same way. > He. I still use RSX on a daily basis... :-) > But MUMPS started on PDP-11s, unless I remember wrong. And as a > standalone system on the machine as well... Actually, MUMPS originated on the PDP-15. But then, so did RSX! Of course, Unix originated on the PDP-7, an earlier part of the same family. ;-> >> And let's look at my list again. MUMPS? How many people use or are >> proficient in it? And yet, it has a massive following and has moved >> into niches it was never really intended to go to. > No new programs are written for it. Not according to the company that sells it (renamed Cache'), or people I know who make a living writing it. -- Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com the russet leaves of an autumn oak/inspire once again the failed poet/ to take up his pen/and essay to place his meagre words upon the page...