Looking for the source code of COSTAR, DHCP and more

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Rochus Keller

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Jun 28, 2026, 8:46:42 PMJun 28
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Maybe anyone can help me to find the MUMPS sources of the COSTAR (Computer-Stored Ambulatory Record, developed at MGH in the 1970s) and/or VA's DHCP (which later became VistA) applications. 

I would like to run these on my MUMPS 76 interpreter if feasible.

I'm generally interested in 
  1. the DECUS 11-362 "MUMPS-11 Library Tape" 
  2. the DECUS 11-380 "QUEST, Standard MUMPS Teaching Program, and DOC" (January 1978, by Robert Stimac/BCL St. Louis)
  3. any pre-1982 MUMPS medical applications.
I already have the DSM-11 V3.3 image from bitsavers and the DECUS 1990 MUMPS SIG tape code.

Sam Habiel

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Jun 29, 2026, 10:42:49 AMJun 29
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There is a old version of Fileman for the PDP-11 floating around somewhere. I don't remember where it is.

--Sam

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Rochus Keller

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Jun 29, 2026, 11:37:17 AMJun 29
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Thanks for the hint. I actually already found it and have it in the corpus (DECUS MUMPS SIG Tape 1990, VA FileMan V17.7, from http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/lt90a/mumpssig/fileman/fman.zoo).

Files:
fm.rou 385K DI* FileMan core routines
fminit.rou 143K DINI* initialization routines
fmmgr.rou 177K Manager routines (most MUMPS implementations)
fmvaxmgr.rou 38K Manager routines (VAX DSM only)

My parser can read them, but fm.rou depends on a "DII" routine which is not in the archive, and which I didn't find elsewhere so far.

Sam Habiel

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Jun 29, 2026, 2:12:31 PMJun 29
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We obviously have more recent versions of DII, but they are M90 and later.

--Sam

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