Editing Prime Computer (section)

====Prime Information====
Both the [[Pick operating system|Pick environment]] and Prime Information were based on the [[Generalized Information Retrieval Language System]] (GIRLS), developed by Richard Pick for the American Department of Defense.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.jes.com/cdp/cdp_faqx.html
|title=General Overview of Classic Pick - a short history   |date=1995}}</ref>

Devcom, a Microdata reseller, wrote a Pick-style database system called INFORMATION in [[FORTRAN]] and assembler in 1979 to run on Prime Computer 50-series systems. INFO/BASIC, a variant of [[Dartmouth BASIC]], was used for database applications. It was then sold to Prime Computer and renamed Prime INFORMATION.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Computerworld |date=March 24, 1986  |page=93
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MskyBf-SNfUC
|title=In Depth - Pick Operating System}}</ref>

Unlike the Pick operating system, a complete operating system, Prime Information was not an operating system, but a [[Fourth-generation programming language|4GL]] system that ran from the Prime PRIMOS operating system.

Prime Information was a re-implementation which deliberately left out some features and added others. Prime Information allowed rapid 4GL or 4GL-like development of applications around relational or quasi-relational database structures. After a series of evolutions and acquisitions Prime Information is now an obsolete part of the [[Rocket U2]] software suite.