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From: locke@pdn.UUCP (Richard Locke)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: The Cult of Pick -- Info on being Initiated? :)
Message-ID: <4655@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 17:03:23 GMT
References: <360@intek01.UUCP>
Reply-To: locke@pdn.UUCP (0000-Richard Locke)
Organization: Paradyne Corporation, Largo, Florida
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In article <360@intek01.UUCP> mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>I keep hearing about Pick, the Super-Amazing combo O/S and database that
>can support unbelievable number of users on a tiny cheap DOSish machine ...

I worked with the Pick system on a plain IBM PC in 84-85 (not at Paradyne!!!).
I was not at all impressed.  In fact, I was depressed!  The PC was supporting
two developers.  If one of us did a compile, life slowed to a crawl.

>I wasn't very interested up to now, mainly because (so the word went) a
>BASIC dialect was the only programming interface.

This was true with the system I worked on.  Some of the problems with this
were: 1) BASIC! yuck!  2) a limit of ~12K on source files (after that you
had to delete comments ;-) 3) interpreted BASIC = comments slowing down
execution, 4) file system subject to serious corruption due to power glitches,
5) no communication with DOS, DOS file system.

[rumors: Is there a C interface, etc]

I have no idea!

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Dick Locke					Paradyne Corporation
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The above has nothing to do with Paradyne.