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• PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve administered this OS, which for us was used to develop images on plates for printing. It ran atop ATT UNIX and had to be “defragged” every now and again to regain contiguous space back. This process involved backing up the system to 250MB QIC tapes (twice for two sets of tapes), wiping the disks and then restoring the data from tape. This was an all-weekend process and really sucked if a tape broke, but that’s why there were two sets and scotch tape can work in a pinch when the other tape is bad.

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  • Goun@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds like a dream job! How long ago was this?

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    • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Veritably, a lifetime ago.

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  • Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I worked for a company that still supports a critical healthcare system that runs on Rocket U2 on AIX which is an evolution of PICK.

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    • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is so funny to hear about “critical” systems that run ancient OSes and I’ve supported my fair share of those environments. I did love AIX as well. Smitty (and F6) teaching me UNIX commands early in my career was a great help.

      Was Rocket U2 still written in Pick Basic?

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait, it’s an OS, but it runs on top of Unix?

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    • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes. Same as Windows 3.1 running atop DOS. I would say it doesn’t truly qualify as an operating system because of its dependence on a parent OS. Perhaps it’s more of an operating environment.

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Iirc some mainframe OSes, like z/OS or whatever, support running different OSes atop them.

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• Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It used to be the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System, but for some reason Dick didn’t like GIRLS.

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• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fun fact: Richard Head was the assistant Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire

  He was and is also a dickhead. Now he makes money giving talks

  https://halfmoonseminars.org/presenter/richard-w-head/

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  chang chang

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• StThicket@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Funny thing, where I come from pikk is slang for dick. So Dick Pick could as well be Richard Penis

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I went to school with a lad called Richard Dick.

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    • DocDish@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik-dik

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    • ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Did they call him Scroat too?

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    • StThicket@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Poor guy.

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• Bonsoir@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, no, I’m not duckduckgoing that.

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  • DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    well i searxng it and i can confirm its real

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are GIRLS in the article!

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m gonna need to know your familiarity with this machine, op

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• Hupf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Apple Computer, Inc. is named after its founder, Tim Apple.

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• maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not Richard, but Dick

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• EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve worked with this monstrosity, it’s not unlike other mainframe operating systems like IMB’s “System i”

  I believe there’s still developers out there working on modern versions of it

  rocketsoftware.com/…/universe-feature-release-mat…

  The whole OS is essentially a really big nosql database, the filesystems are journaled and you have “files” but you also have dynamic files called “print queues” and executables are “jobs” that run queries and output into queues.

  I know at least two of the major hotel chains use them still in their core network.

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  • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The best thing about it was all the functions that existed for string manipulation, since every data record was just a big string with demarcations for columns (and values and subvalues, making it technically a 4D database). You could use it to consume nearly any data format and throw together a quick-and-dirty parser in minutes. Really good for rapid proof-of-concepts, but occasionally challenging to maintain data integrity when you have all the rope in the world to hang yourself with.

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• spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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• hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wtf this is real

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• alecbowles@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My DMs are open for Dick Pick images.

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• libre_warrior@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you say pick in norwegian, it means dick.

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• mossberg590@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Run bitch! Get some help!

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• tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like this would have been more interesting if they used Richard.

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  • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If it makes you feel any better the manuals had his name as Richard Pick.

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What a POS

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• ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I worked at a place that used a Pick - D3 based ERP system for decades. They employed like the last three D3 programmers in the world (two were children of the other).

  While I was there we had a major major moonshot project to replace it with a D365 solution.

  (No, it didn’t improve anything, but it sure cost a lot and came with big ongoing costs)

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  >not named after this pick en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_Szeged

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• Fontasia@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually really good

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