Meeting 20 of the MUMPS Development Committee

12 May 1980 - 13 May 1980, San Diego, California

Attendees

David A. Bridger Incorporated (David A. Bridger)
Children's Hospital, Oklahoma City (Tom Harris)
DECUS (William Ganbarg)
Digital Equipment Corporation (J. Barry Herring, Mary Altenhof, Dirk Brinkman and Michael Banovsky)
InterSystems Corporation, formerly known as Interpretive Data Systems (Philip Terry Ragon)
Massachusetts General Hospital (Robert Rees)
The MITRE Corporation (Jack Bowie)
MTA - Europe, formerly known as MUMPS User's Group - Europe (Frits Schutte)
MTA - Japan, formerly known as MUMPS User's Group - Japan (Ichiro Wakai and Herb Goodman)
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (Jeffrey Rothmeier)
Tandem Computers (Carl A. Niehaus and Joan Zimmerman)
University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (David D. Sherertz)
University of Massachusetts (Kathleen McCarthy and Sandra Meltzer)
Veterans Administration, Albany, New York (Robert H. Greenfield)
Veterans Administration Information Systems Center (2) - Washington, DC (Martin E. Johnson)
Veterans Administration Information Systems Center (6) - San Francisco (George F. Timson)
Veterans Administration - Loma Linda, California (Thomas H. Munnecke)
Vista Computer Incorporated (Kevin O'Gorman)

Events

Cecil Murray is Chairman of the MDC
Robert Rees is Vice-Chairman of the MDC
David D. Sherertz is chairman of Subcommittee # 1 (Standard Specifications and Language Development)
Thomas H. Munnecke is chairman of Subcommittee # 2 (Implementation)
Arden W. Forrey is chairman of Subcommittee # 3 (Documentation)

Subcommittee # 5 (Constitution) is re-established to deal with issues of membership of user groups (such as DECUS).

Status Document
MDC Type A Removal of restriction on range of $ASCII and $CHAR
MDC Type A Clarification of return-values of $DATA and $LENGTH
MDC Type A Removal of restriction on HANG argument
MDC Type A Addition of parameter-scoping syntax on DO command
SC#1 Type B Removal of restriction on range of $ASCII and $CHAR
SC#1 Type B Clarification of return-values of $DATA and $LENGTH
SC#1 Type B Removal of restriction on HANG argument
Rescind five argument form of $PIECE

SC#1 Type B Removal of restriction on undefined state of naked indicator
SC#1 Type B Removal of restriction on pattern-match codes
SC#1 Type B Addition of parameter-scoping syntax on DO command