PICK OS

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Sun Apr 11 04:14:18 1999

At 14:17 11/04/99 -0400, Lance Lyon wrote:

> 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.

Pick is also used as the environment for one of the more popular library
on-line catalog systems known as URICA. We've just replaced ours with III
running on Digital Unix (bit of a culture shock for the librarians :-).
Pick is still alive and kicking (see www.pick.com for more details than you
probably need to know...). BTW, Pick was designed/developed (and as far as
I know originally written by) Dick Pick - hence the name.

It has some interesting documentation, the one I liked most was
"Introduction to Reality" which was housed in my computer room for quite a
while (although I wasn't game to find out what reality was :-)

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