11 Apr
1999
11 Apr
'99
6:31 a.m.
Max Eskin wrote:
PICK was used on a lot of turnkey systems for the automotive, insurance
and medical industries.
It's main os competitor for medical software was probably Mumps also known
as M.
It ran on many of the 16 bit minicomputers including the DEC PDP11
and Honeywell mini's. During the '80's it began being hosted under
Unix instead of running directly on the metal like it did on the lesser
powered 16 bit machines.
It (like Mumps) combined database features and the OS and a common
development language in one package.
Bill
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bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.dyndns.org
Three things never anger: First, the one who runs your DEC,
The one who does Field Service and the one who signs your check.
I saw an interesting book at the library today
about something called PICK
OS. I didn't get to look through the entire book, but I read enough to see
that it refers to directories as dictionaries. It seems to take a novel
approach, but I know nothing about it. Haven't even heard of it. Does
anyone here know more? Does anyone here have the PC version (mentioned in
the book)?
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
I don't know a great deal about it, however, many doctors in NSW use it as
their OS of choice, apparently has built in networking & a large amount of
medical software written for it.
Sorry I don't know more.
cheers,
Lance