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A faithful implementation of the 1976 MUMPS standard plus some DEC MUMPS-11 Extensions

11 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 5 stories, 6 comments · first 2026-06-28 · latest 2026-08-28

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  1. That's fascinating. I spent significant time with early MUMPS and the machines of the time ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/mumps/ ) which had a comparable amount of memory. Was your whole insurance application only assembler, i.e. no…
    comment by Rochus · 2026-08-28 · in Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo
  2. …It's purely interesting for historical reasons. The article is part of my anniversary project ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/ ). I neither think that "your career will suffer" if you do Ada, Fortran, Mumps (i.e. M/Cache/IRIS or…
    comment by Rochus · 2026-07-22 · in What most histories get wrong about MUMPS's first standard
  3. primer ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/MUMPS_... ) is an interesting read I wish someone made something similar for Forth. Too many times I encountered something explained about forth that itself needed explanation…
    comment by NooneAtAll3 · 2026-07-21 · in What most histories get wrong about MUMPS's first standard
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    What most histories get wrong about MUMPS's first standard
    story by Rochus · 2026-07-13 · 16 comments
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    Show HN: A faithful MUMPS 76 anniversary implementation – the original NoSQL DB
    story by Rochus · 2026-07-06 · 1 comment
  6. …historical software from the era (like the original STARTREK application shown in the screenshot: https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/imgs/m... ). If you want to play with it, I've provided pre-compiled binaries for…
    comment by Rochus · 2026-07-05 · in Running the '80s DECUS Star Trek game on my new MUMPS 76 interpreter
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    Running the '80s DECUS Star Trek game on my new MUMPS 76 interpreter
    story by Rochus · 2026-07-05 · 1 comment
  8. The project is intentionally about the MUMPS 76 standard and its anniversary, see https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/Readme.md .
    comment by Rochus · 2026-06-29 · in The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition
  9. …NoSQL database decades before the term existed. See here for more information about the project: https://github.com/rochus-keller/mumps/ There are pre-compiled versions of my MUMPS 76 interpreter in case you want to play with it.
    comment by Rochus · 2026-06-28 · in The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition
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    The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition
    story by Rochus · 2026-06-28 · 59 comments
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    Show HN: A faithful MUMPS 76 anniversary implementation – the original NoSQL DB
    story by Rochus · 2026-06-28 · 1 comment