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I only ever saw Pick here in New Zealand running on Pr1me.

• skissane 2y ago
  Pick 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 ago
    Universe 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.