Xref: utzoo comp.databases:1544 comp.os.misc:626 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!pyramid!pyrnj!dasys1!tbetz From: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: The Cult of Pick -- Info on being Initiated? :) Message-ID: <7039@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 18 Oct 88 21:30:40 GMT References: <360@intek01.UUCP> Reply-To: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) Organization: Zen Community of New York Lines: 13 The only Pick software I've ever seen running (on some generic mini) was slow as molasses. It took all day to process what I can do on my Apple /// network (using UCSD Pascal) in a couple hours. Anyway, do you really want to use an OS that requires you to write your applications in BASIC? -- MY CURRENT FAVORITE ADVERTISING LINES: |Tom Betz EAA#48267 "Look what they done to old Duke! |ZCNY, Yonkers, NY 10701-2509 Next year I'm plantin' corn." |UUCP: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP or "It's not >that< crazy! Rosemary..." | ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tbetz