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Upvoting for Pick mention.
by tiahura 2y ago
Upvoting for Pick mention.
- brucehoult 2y agoI only ever saw Pick here in New Zealand running on Pr1me.
- skissane 2y agoPick ran on a plethora of different platforms. Ultimate even had a port for IBM mainframes, PICK/370. How much use all these different ports saw, I don’t know. Obviously some of them were pretty big (you mention Prime, I’ll mention R83) - others less so. I wonder how many customers IBM RT PC PICK ever actually had. Probably significantly less than PICK ever had on AIX for RS/6000 (at one point several different PICK vendors offered Unix ports, and AIX was commonly on the list of supported Unix flavours)
- smackeyacky 2y agoUniverse is alive and, not well, but surviving. It’s still used in a common central banking system. Still chugging away on AIX too. I hate it.
- sillywalk 2y ago> I wonder how many customers IBM RT PC PICK ever actually had. According to Wikipedia: Approximately 23,000 RTs were sold over its lifetime, with some 4,000 going into IBM's development and sales organizations. Pick OS sales accounted for about 4,000 units.
- gcoleman 2y agoA blast from the past! Years ago I worked on some J2EE nonsense to do e-commerce websites on top of a Pick application. It was I think called Mailbrain, I think running on HPUX though I could be mis-remembering. There was a horrible text based socket protocol for passing data records back and forth. I do remember the Pick greybeards being dismissive of this new fangled SQL stuff: "we had relational databases before SQL don't you know"