Hi Sean,
Before there was this new fangled Universe and Unidata, PICK was a platform
independent os/database. It used to run on a variety of platforms from big
IBM mainframes all the way down to small minicomputers, and then when PC's
were invented (8086 based!!) even on them.
This was all achieved by having a PICK Virtual Machine, which was ported to
each of these platforms. This VM had a very strange structure, with a
number of registers and it's own set of instructions. The language used to
program this VM at a low level was called the PICK assembler. I believe
this is the language being referred to...
hth,
Sean W Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05 Nov 2004 18:30
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What is Pick Assembler Language?
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