Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Pick operating system
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==External links== *[http://jes.com/gfx/people/csn_1983_11_28_antigrav_dick_001.jpg Photo of Dick Pick in his anti-gravity boots on the cover of Computer Systems News, 1983.] *[http://www.mannyneira.com/universe Life the Universe and Everything]: introduction to and online training course in Universe developed by Pick software engineer Manny Neira. *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ms0yvJAUAk Video]: "History of the PICK System" made in 1990 *[https://www.multivalue-world.com/documents Pick Publications Database] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sz3MDl1XRw 1987 Interview with Dick Pick in the Pick Pavilion at COMDEX] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGNRReaQ0Og 1990 Interview with Dick Pick in the Pick Pavilion at COMDEX] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHlRJCrxI-g 1990 Interview with Jonathan Sisk in the Pick Pavilion at COMDEX] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFpK8440HZA&t=83s 1991 Pick Rap Show at COMDEX, co-written by Jonathan Sisk and John Treankler] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSB6ozApdX4 1992 Video of Dick and Zion Pick, who appeared in the Ross Perot campaign rally - includes entire unedited Perot speech] *[https://seeinggreen.typepad.com/my_weblog/2020/10/the-poet-the-physicist-and-the-immigrant.html An insightful early history of the Pick System, by Chandru Murthi, who was there at the time] *[https://books.google.com/books?id=9eJxx_ZGKngC&pg=PA321 1984 PC Magazine article "Choosing the Pick of the Litter", by Jonathan E. Sisk and Steve VanArsdale] *[https://books.google.com/books?id=PfrdbIUydyoC&dq=pick/basic&pg=PA59 Database Management Approach to Operating Systems Development, by Richard A. Pick Chapter 5 of New Directions for Database Systems, Gad Ariav, James Clifford editors] *[https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/minicomputers/11/367 Doing More With Less Hardware, Computer History Museum piece on Pick] {{Time-sharing operating systems}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pick Operating System}} [[Category:1965 software]] [[Category:Data processing]] [[Category:Legacy systems]] [[Category:Proprietary database management systems]] [[Category:Proprietary operating systems]] [[Category:Assembly language software]] [[Category:Time-sharing operating systems]] [[Category:X86 operating systems]] [[Category:68k architecture]]
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)