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It used to be the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System, but for some reason Dick didn’t like GIRLS.
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Submitted 2 months ago by gay_geek@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 months 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
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
StThicket@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Funny thing, where I come from pikk is slang for dick. So Dick Pick could as well be Richard Penis
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I went to school with a lad called Richard Dick.
DocDish@feddit.uk 2 months ago
ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Did they call him Scroat too?
StThicket@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Poor guy.
Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yeah, no, I’m not duckduckgoing that.
DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
well i searxng it and i can confirm its real
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are GIRLS in the article!
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I’m gonna need to know your familiarity with this machine, op
Hupf@feddit.org 1 month ago
Apple Computer, Inc. is named after its founder, Tim Apple.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Not Richard, but Dick
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 1 month 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.
spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 1 month ago
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 months ago
wtf this is real
alecbowles@feddit.uk 2 months ago
My DMs are open for Dick Pick images.
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
If you say pick in norwegian, it means dick.
mossberg590@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I feel like this would have been more interesting if they used Richard.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If it makes you feel any better the manuals had his name as Richard Pick.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What a POS
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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)
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
>not named after this pick en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_Szeged
Fontasia@feddit.nl 2 months ago
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Goun@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Sounds like a dream job! How long ago was this?
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Veritably, a lifetime ago.
Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 2 months 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?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wait, it’s an OS, but it runs on top of Unix?
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Iirc some mainframe OSes, like z/OS or whatever, support running different OSes atop them.