>
>
> Max Eskin wrote:
>
> > 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_at_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
>
>
>
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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Received on Sun Apr 11 1999 - 06:31:21 BST