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| From | Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.raspberry-pi, comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Cross Platform Development |
| Date | 2015-04-29 20:07 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mhrdlb$a0h$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (17 earlier) <mhp0kq$vlt$1@speranza.aioe.org> <mhpmcd$9rr$1@news.albasani.net> <mhr4kc$87o$1@dont-email.me> <mhrbiu$l8f$2@dont-email.me> <mhrc77$a3p$1@dont-email.me> |
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On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:43:33 -0400, rickman wrote: > On 4/29/2015 3:31 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:34:02 -0400, rickman wrote: >> >>> You got all that from the wikipedia page? You seem to read >>> selectively. >>> >> Of course he did. The first line of the article says: >> >> MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming >> System)... > > The name is pretty clear to me... "Multi-Programming System". It > doesn't say anything about medical use, just that it was developed for a > hospital. They do more than medicine you know. Inventory, finance and > logistics are applicable to many, many things. I think that came later - the article says that it was developed by a group that worked in an animal testing lab to keep track of results and then was than spotted by patient admissions and used in that area. After that it seems to have a home in finance and banking as well as in other medical situations. Cm'on, who outside the medical world would would think that MUMPS was a great acronym? I think folks have largely forgotten the disease now, along with measles, but when I was a kid mumps, measles and chicken pox were the things you didn't want to get, and mumps may have been the nastiest of these, especially if you were bloke and past puberty. ...goes off fuming about the selfish bastards who refuse to vaccinate their kids... -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
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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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