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Subject: Re: PICK dbms/os on UNIX
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Date: 11 Jun 91 08:47:57 GMT
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In article <10595@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, gpmenos@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (G. Philippe Menos) writes:
> I'm seeing a demo of the Advance Library System, which
> uses PICK running on UNIX, using Univers, I think.  Does anyone have any
> opinions on the wisdom or "non-wisdom" of running PICK on Unix inthis
> manner...  or any comments on PICK for that matter.
> 
> I hope I'm not addressing this to the wrong newsgroup.  If there's a
> more appropriate place to ask this question, please tell me by e-mail.
> 
> [I support computing applications within the Princeton University
> Libraries.]
> 
> Phil
Here at TCD we use Dynix running ounder PICK on a board in a VMS machine.
We will this summer switch over to running Dynix , under Pick on a DEC
UlTRIX computer. Dynix is a widely used library system which runs under the
PICK/UNIX combination on IBM, HP, MIPS and DEC machines.

Michael Doherty, Computer Lab, O'Reilly Institute, University of Dublin, 
                 Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Doherty@VAX1.TCD.IE