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From: gast@maui.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: PIC (sp)
Message-ID: <1991May22.040034.16123@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 04:00:34 GMT
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In article <1991May15.091845.24097@ora.com> jerry@ora.com (Jerry Peek) writes:
>In article <1991May8.150621.15614@csl.dl.nec.com> harrison@csl.dl.nec.com (Mark Harrison) writes:
>> In article <1991May7.135057.1@dev8a.mdcbbs.com> rivero@dev8a.mdcbbs.com writes:
>> >A friend recently mentioned another operating system called PIC (sp) and...
>> >Anyone know about this system, and where I can get info on it?
>> >Is it better than UN*X?
>> I read something about it a while back.  It seems it is more data processing
>> oriented, so it might be better for that kind of application.

An organization I know dropped $2.5M on pick hardware and software.  Over-
priced?  By a factor of at least 25, possibly 100.

And gues what?  It does not do everything so they are spending hundreds
of thousands more on PCs.

Classic.

David