Pick operating system

Pick operating system
DeveloperDon Nelson
Dick Pick
TRW
Written inAssembly language
Initial release1965 (GIRLS), 1973 (Reality Operating System)
Marketing targetBusiness data processing
Available inEnglish
PlatformsSolaris, Linux, AIX, Windows Server (2000 and up)
Kernel typeMonolithic (or none for operating environment implementations)
Default
user interface		Text-based
LicenseProprietary

The Pick Operating System, also known as the Pick System or simply Pick,[1] is a demand-paged, 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.[2][3]

The term "Pick system" has also come to be used as the general name of all operating environments which employ this multivalued database and have some implementation of Pick/BASIC and ENGLISH/Access queries. Although Pick started on a variety of minicomputers, the system and its various implementations eventually spread to a large assortment of microcomputers, personal computers,[4] and mainframe computers.[5]

  1. ^ Ramming, D; Bourdon, Roger J. (1989). "The pick operating system – a Practical Guide". Proceedings of the IEEE. 77 (2): 363. doi:10.1109/JPROC.1989.1203777. S2CID 9328922.
  2. ^ Woodyard, Chris (1994-10-19). "Software Developer Dick Pick Dies at 56". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2023-03-15. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
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  4. ^ "PICK Operating System – brings Mainframe Power to your PC". InfoWorld. July 27, 1987. p. 80.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference CP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).