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- Submitted-by: blarson%mizar.usc.edu@usc.edu (Bob Larson)
-
- Pick is a data-base and operating enviornment (including programming
- language) designed around the commands used to query the data-base.
- It's main strength is the ability to quickly design new reports.
-
- In article <v13ajINNr6d@ftp.UU.NET> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >>Submitted-by: ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu
- >>I know there are books about PICK, but can anyone provide me with some
- >>on-line sources of information, etc. --- such as anonymous-ftp
- >>sites for PICK utilities and so forth?
- >
- >Unless things have changed since I last encountered it, PICK is a proprietary
- >product of one particular company,
-
- Technicly true, although that is also true of Unix. However, the
- (proprietary to other companies) work-betters have been around for
- well over a decade. (Unlike Unix, where no-AT&T code work-alikes are
- relitivly recent.) There are at least four competing variations
- running on various Unix platforms, (Universe, Unidata, Prime
- Information/Open, and Advanced Pick) as well as those running on other
- operating systems and stand alone.
-
- >and you will have to talk to them about
- >machine-readable documentation, utilities, etc.
-
- There are several magizines devoted to Pick-Alikes, and various
- user-groups and trade shows. Quite a few companies make their living
- selling utilities and doing consulting on Pick systems.
-
- I don't know of any FTP sites. Comp.sys.prime sometimes has
- discussions of Prime Information and Prime Information/Open.
-
- >It used to be a complete operating system, in fact.
-
- And still is. Although cheap Unix boxes are making it less common.
-
- >They eventually saw
- >which way the wind was blowing and did a port to the Unix environment.
-
- After noting lost sales to compeditors.
-
- Disclaimer: I work for a company that sells a utility for building
- data entry screens for three of the four above mentioned Pick-based
- eviornments, and sells one of them. (And even Unix boxes to run it
- on, if you want.) Call +1(213)743-0091 and ask for someone in sales
- if you are interested.
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 98
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