Re: Cross Platform Development

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi, comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Cross Platform Development
Date	2015-04-29 05:23 +0100
Organization	albasani.net
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On 28/04/15 23:12, Steve Graham wrote:
> Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
> ...
>
>>
>>> There were a number of odd/specialised languages around at the time
>>> which
>>> are not much used now and many of them had similar development
>>> characteristics and the ability to run on small, slow machines.
>>>
>>> MUMPS, anybody?
>>
>> MUMPS was unbelievably slow, even on fairly fast machines. Interactivity
>> was its own advantage.
>>
>
> MUMPS is a lot like Forth in one aspect:  Both were able to create
> multi-user systems out of low-powered CPU's (Z80 for Forth (?) and 80286
> for MUMPS).  And when 386's and 486's appeared on the scene, these
> physically small machines took over the duties formerly relegated to
> much larger mini-computers.  As has been said of Forth in another
> thread, MUMPS was able to eek out a lot more performance from the same
> system than other languages could.
>
> Steve
>
Your version of history is interesting, but appears to be unique.

MUMPS was a minicomputer  language developed in the 60s. Specifically 
for medical use.

Looking at the wiki entry reveals its more akin to a super COBOL than 
anything else.


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Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-26 09:25 -0400
  Re: Cross Platform Development Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-26 19:43 +0000
    Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-26 21:30 -0400
      Re: Cross Platform Development Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-28 15:16 -0700
    Re: Cross Platform Development hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-04-26 19:46 -0700
    Re: Cross Platform Development "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-26 22:23 -1000
      Re: Cross Platform Development Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-28 15:12 -0700
        Re: Cross Platform Development The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-29 05:23 +0100
          Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 13:34 -0400
            Re: Cross Platform Development Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-29 19:31 +0000
              Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 15:43 -0400
                Re: Cross Platform Development Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-29 20:07 +0000
                Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 18:49 -0400
              Re: Cross Platform Development Mike Fleming <{mike}@tauzero.co.uk> - 2015-05-01 18:23 +0100
                Re: Cross Platform Development Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-05-02 02:35 -0500
                Re: Cross Platform Development Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-05-02 10:08 +0000
  Re: Cross Platform Development The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-27 09:31 +0100

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