A McDonnell-Douglas Micro-6000?

From: Roger Ivie <IVIE_at_cc.usu.edu>
Date: Wed Aug 27 18:16:24 1997

> Anybody know what this baby runs??? I heard in passing that they used
> to run PICK on it. I think PICK is some kind of manufacturing software
> but what was/is the operating system?

PICK is the operating system.

PICK is a combination operating system/programming language/user environment.
It was created by Dick Pick on a military computer (I think one of those
militarized UNIVAC thingies) and ported to a variety of other machines.
AFAIK all legitimate ports were done by Dick Pick himself, although the
book I found talks about people cloning PICK without Dick's permission (since
this is a book of the "PICK rah, rah, rah!" variety, this is said to be
a Bad Thing).

Personally, it looked to me like there were holes in the PICK system you could
drive a truck through; security seems to be done mostly through obscurity.

Roger Ivie
ivie_at_cc.usu.edu
Received on Wed Aug 27 1997 - 18:16:24 BST

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