Editing Pick operating system (section)

{{Short description|Business data processing operating system released in 1965}}
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| name                   = Pick operating system
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| developer              = Don Nelson<br/>Dick Pick<br/>[[TRW Inc.|TRW]]
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| kernel_type            = [[monolithic kernel|Monolithic]] (or none for [[operating environment]] implementations)
| supported_platforms    = [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[Linux]], [[AIX]], [[Windows Server]] (2000 and up)
| ui                     = [[text-based (computing)|Text-based]]
| family                 = 
| released               = 1965 ([[Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS)|GIRLS]]), 1973 (Reality Operating System)
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| marketing_target       = Business [[data processing]]
| programmed_in          = [[Assembly language]]
| prog_language          = Data/BASIC ([[BASIC]]-like), PROC procedure language, [[ENGLISH (programming language)|ENGLISH]]
| language               = [[English language|English]]
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| license                = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
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}}
The '''Pick Operating System''', also known as the '''Pick System''' or simply '''Pick''',<ref name=IEEE.Pick>{{cite journal |title=The pick operating system – a Practical Guide |journal=Proceedings of the IEEE |volume=77 |issue=2 |pages=363 |last1=Ramming |first1=D |last2=Bourdon |first2=Roger J. |date=1989|doi=10.1109/JPROC.1989.1203777 |s2cid=9328922 }}</ref> is a [[demand paging|demand-paged]], [[Multi-user software|multi-user]], [[virtual memory]], [[time-sharing]] [[computer]] [[operating system]] based around a [[MultiValue database]]. Pick is used primarily for business [[data processing]]. It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Woodyard |first=Chris |date=1994-10-19 |title=Software Developer Dick Pick Dies at 56 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-19-me-52018-story.html |access-date=2023-06-17 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315113106/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-19-me-52018-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="LAT.Obit94" />

The term "Pick system" has also come to be used as the general name of all [[operating environment]]s which employ this multivalued database and have some implementation of Pick/BASIC and [[ENGLISH (programming language)|ENGLISH]]/[[Access query language|Access]] queries. Although Pick started on a variety of [[minicomputer]]s, the system and its various implementations eventually spread to a large assortment of [[microcomputer]]s, personal computers,<ref>{{cite magazine|date=July 27, 1987|title=PICK Operating System – brings Mainframe Power to your PC|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6DsEAAAAMBAJ|magazine=InfoWorld|page=80}}</ref> and [[mainframe computer]]s.<ref name=CP/>